'Flying Squirrel' would rather miss home than Olympics Gabrielle Douglas wanted to go home. In January, four days after the gymnast dubbed the “Flying Squirrel” celebrated her 16th birthday, training for the Olympics in West Des Moines, Iowa, became too much. Douglas yearned to return to her family in Virginia Beach, and the midnight showings of “Twilight” movies with sisters Arielle and Joy, dinners at Smokey Bones and exploring the boardwalk with her dogs, Zoway and Chandler. Two years earlier, Douglas wrote a list of pros and one con — she would miss her family — as she hounded her...