But now she's back!

The 23-year-old took home silver at the first event of 2019 FIG Artistic Gymnastics World Cup series in Melbourne last month. 

Not long after she went one step further in Baku event, qualifying first for the final in the same apparatus and winning gold, her first World Cup victory. 

It was actually two years ago that she qualified third for the final and had a fall during her routine, meaning she just missed out on a medal.

"So to go again and win qualifications then win finals was incredible...can't imagine it," Nedov said.

"To get a silver I was stoked then it sort of gave me the confidence I needed when I went into the next World Cup and instead of thinking about medals, I was focusing on my execution and fine tuning my routine."

However, to understand Nedov's journey back to artistic gymnastics, let's go back to 2016 when the then 20-year-old tried to qualify for the Rio Olympics.

"So I actually went with the team to Rio in 2016 to qualify for the Olympics but we just missed out so that was a big blow and I actually considered retiring then," she said.

"I decided to keep going and try for Comm Games because it was a home Games on the Gold Coast."

Sadly, during a training session in early 2017 Nedov was doing a regular tumbling run but when she went to jump her Achilles snapped. Her chances at competing on the Gold Coast and at a home Commonwealth Games, which don't come around often, was gone. 

It was going to take up to a year to recover. 

Not long after she made the decision to finish up her career in the sport. 

"I got back into training afterwards, I wanted to get back to fitness to make sure that I didn't turn to a bit of a slog," Nedov said.

"I trained for about four months, and then I thought to myself, 'okay, you know what, I think I've done the best, it's time to put the towel in and start making money'".

The Sydney-sider was working in marketing for the center she trained at, nothing about the job was related to gymnastics but being there gave her the motivation to get back into the sport. 

Coming back into gymnastics, Nedov didn't have high expectations, she just wanted to give it one more shot.

"I actually came back into the sport, with no high hopes, I sort of taken a lot of time off, it had been two years since my Achilles, and I came back with the mindset of 'okay, let's give it one more shot," she said.

"If it turns out that I can't do anymore, then I can't do it anymore if it turns out, but I'm really good at it, okay, great'.

"So everything that I've done has just been one more step and that's, as far as I'm looking with it."

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However, despite having the spark to get back, her Achilles injury was difficult to get over. Not because of the physical pain but the mental barriers from how the injury occurred.

Getting back onto floor was hard. It was a mental battle but she has worked with a sports psychologist to help with it all. 

"I didn't do anything in particular, to snap my Achilles, I actually was just training as normal," Nedov said.

"So every time I would do any tumble, I was so nervous about my Achilles, I couldn't help it, I would jump just a little bit on the other leg. So it's taken a long time for my body to realise that the Achilles is all healed, it's not going to happen again."

After missing out on both the 2016 Rio Olympics and 2018 Commonwealth Games, Tokyo 2020 is still on the cards for Nedov. However, the experiences she has had over the past two years has allowed her to see the bigger picture on the road to the XXXII Olympiad.

"Having these setbacks you have to be realistic that sometimes these things can happen," Nedov said.

"I make sure to keep my mind on the small and short term goals into like, so not focusing too much on Tokyo.

"I'm focusing on the World Cup, I'm focusing on World Championships in October and things like that, that will get me towards Tokyo."