Nancy Armour

USA TODAY Sports

HOFFMAN ESTATES, Ill. -- Gabby Douglas is now training in Ohio, and Martha Karolyi hopes that will be the last stop on the Olympic champion's comeback tour.

Douglas began training at Buckeye Gymnastics in Columbus, Ohio, last week, after leaving coach Liang Chow for the second time since winning gold at the London Olympics. Douglas had returned to Chow's gym in West Des Moines in April, eight months after leaving to be closer to her family in Los Angeles.

"Time will tell," Karolyi, coordinator of the women's national team, said Friday when asked about the move. "I'm not crazy about lots of changes. I like stability and I know from my times when I was directing coaching gymnasts, I liked to develop a relationship with my gymnast.

"It takes time to develop those kinds of relationships," Karolyi added. "I really hope -- she is very talented and I was surprised at how well she came back after a big break. Physically, she was very fit."

Douglas had initially hoped to return to competition this season, but that's now out of the question. She is not competing at this weekend's U.S. Classic, a qualifier for the national championships later this month, and she won't petition for the world team selection camp, said Kittia Carpenter, who is in charge of Buckeye's elite program.

"She wants to come back looking as strong as she left and she didn't feel she's quite there yet," Carpenter said.

But Douglas is determined to make a run at the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Carpenter said. She's training 30 hours a week, and is limiting her commercial and appearance commitments to one day a week.

Karolyi was pleased with what she saw from Douglas at the two national team training camps she attended after returning to work with Chow.

But that was just the start, Karolyi cautioned.

Not only will Douglas have to get her old skills back, Carpenter said she wants to add new ones on uneven bars and floor exercise to boost her start values. And some of Douglas' routines will have to be tweaked so they conform to the current code of points.

"All of that will take lots of work. And it will take consistent work," Karolyi said. "My wish is that she will be consistent in her training. And if that's what she will do, I think she will be fine. But if she jumps up and down and left and right, it will be much harder."