Beth Tweddle is Britain's gymnastic darling, even though she'd always come up empty in the Olympics.

Not anymore.

Tweddle picked up her first Olympic medal Monday when she took bronze on the bars, her signature event.

"It's the best feeling in the world. It's the one medal that was missing from my collection and I've always said I don't care what color it is," said Tweddle, a two-time world champion on bars.

"I tried to say it didn't matter if I didn't medal, but I've got every other title to my name. I can now say I would have been devastated walking away with no medal."

Tweddle, who is 27, is now headed into retirement. But she said she won't immediately stop training because walking away cold turkey would be too much for her to handle.

— Jenna Fryer — Twitter http://twitter.com/jennafryer

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