Shawn Johnson
Shawn Johnson
Shawn Machel Johnsonis an American retired artistic gymnast. She is the 2008 Olympic balance beam gold medalist and team, all-around and floor exercise silver medalist. Johnson is also a five-time Pan American Games gold medalist, winning the team titles in 2007 and 2011, as well as titles in the all-around, uneven bars, and balance beam in 2007...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAthlete
Date of Birth19 January 1992
CountryUnited States of America
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It's pretty hard to separate what's really important from what's merely interesting. There's a lot going on.
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When it comes to gymnastics, you can be 30 points ahead going into that competition, but on that day, it's all about luck. It's about who has a good day, who stays healthy, it's how happy the judges are that day, there are so many different factors.
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A typical practice consists of practicing every event for about an hour. A lot of people assume I have private coaching, but I work out with 13 other girls at the gym!
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Critique the performance, and respect the hard work put in.
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I usually work out 4 hours a day during the week and 5 to 6 hours on Saturday, with Sundays off.
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It is scarier now than ever. I need to work out as hard as possible now or I won't be able to achieve my goals. It is scary that any little slip could damage everything. I need to be careful with my health just to make sure I can push it that hard so I can make it.
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This is my first year as an elite, so it's a big accomplishment to have come this far already. I just hope to keep doing more. I still have the hardest part to go.
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Every year I just kept going back to gymnastics, but I didn't start out training 10 hours a day. When I turned 10 or 11, I got more serious and I focused a lot on making it to the elite level, and from there I just kept going.
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I'm pleased to say my knee feels a lot better. It's still not back to normal, and I don't know if it ever will be, but I'm learning to deal with it instead of expecting it to be like it was before.
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I feel like if you compare the commentary, what's covered with female athletics, as with men. On any given day, if a guy competes, you're going to critique his technique and his performance, training. With a girl, you don't do the same thing. You might mention a little bit of that, but you're also going to get what she was wearing, how she performed, what she looked like. I feel like it should be the same.
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It's been strange and weird watching the other girls at the U.S. Olympic trials just because I was training to be out there myself.
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That's the thing about Mill, you don't want to sound bad there.