"Saying one wrong thing can ruin business": LSU gymnast Olivia Dunne finds it hard to master the art of staying silent 

LSU gymnast Olivia Dunne quickly became popular after regularly posting gymnastics and lifestyle content on social media. Her popularity helped her capitalize her name, image and likeness (NIL) — which is valued at $4 million, as per On3 Sports. But even though she is a well-liked figure on the internet, she still faces criticism.

During her appearance on an episode of Flau'jae Johnson's "Best of Both Worlds" podcast, Dunne revealed that she tries to practice the art of staying silent; but often faces difficulties as she would want to talk back to her online critics.

"My Twitter fingers go crazy but I can't. The art of trying to stay silent during certain things, it's like, saying one wrong thing can ruin the business. Just being able to keep your cool and composure, that's an art and that's something that we need to do because we are also representing LSU and that's hard," said Dunne.

Johnson responded by saying:

"First of all, I'm not representing myself anymore. I'm representing brands, I'm representing LSU. It's people that look up to me. It's a whole lot of factors."

Though Johnson agreed to Dunne's advice of 'zipping it,' she said that she likes to talk back.

Olivia Dunne gave a report of her difficult conditioning as a gymnast

On the podcast, Dunne also discussed the difficult training that gymnasts undergo to be in the best shape possible. Without the right kind of training, gymnasts often aren't able to participate in tournaments.

"I think all sports have like different levels of like how hard you need to train for your sport but gymnastics is obviously your own body weight and your job is to make it look easy," said Dunne. "Like if you're not making it look easy then you're not doing it right.

"For the fifth year back, we have this conditioning test and it's eight exercises and it's like, kind of what we did in Elite Gymnastics, which is very hard... if you fail any exercise you can't train until you can pass so that you're in your best physical shape and so you don't get hurt.

"But it's just hard like coming back from such a crazy summer and then having to do these things. It's such a rude awakening."

Dunne will use her fifth and final year of college eligibility as part of the LSU Tigers for the 2024-2025 season.