Olympic gymnastics champion Laurie Hernandez plans on competing in 2019, her agent said.
Hernandez has not competed since taking team gold and balance beam silver at the Rio Olympics, followed by winning “Dancing with the Stars” later that fall.
She said in October that she hoped to compete in 2018 but would not rush a comeback. Hernandez since decided not to compete at the U.S. Championships this August.
No member of the Final Five has competed at the elite level since Rio, though Madison Kocian is in her sophomore season at UCLA and Simone Biles plans to return this summer.
Aly Raisman said in September 2016 that she planned to take one year off, then return to training for a Tokyo 2020 run. But her focus shifted in the last year to something more important -- taking on USA Gymnastics and the U.S. Olympic Committee after Larry Nassar sexual-abuse crimes.
The last member of the Final Five, 2012 Olympic all-around champion Gabby Douglas, has not said in widely reported comments if or when she will return to competition.
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*Correction: An earlier version of this post incorrectly stated Hernandez earned Olympic silver on vault rather than beam.
