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 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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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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I want to go to college, obviously go to London and just kind of figure out the rest of my life.
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at the fallen angels in some of the less exciting areas.
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At halftime we talked about lack of focus. I thought we did a pretty good job the second half of staying focused.
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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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With literature, sometimes a book is presented in the media as being say, a Muslim story or an African story, when essentially it's a universal story which we can all relate to it, no matter what race or social background we come from
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In some ways the ACL tear was a blessing. I had hesitated to return to elite gymnastics after the 2008 Olympics. I told myself I had already accomplished so much, and the road was just going to get harder if I continued.
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It might have been easier to retire, to say my knee couldn't handle it and let that be that. At the same time, the prospect of not being able to compete in gymnastics anymore was heartbreaking.
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Retiring was scary and it was tough to give up gymnastics, but so many great opportunities have come from it that I never expected.
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I started taking gymnastic classes when I was 3 years old.
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Were taught at such a young age that you can always be better and that youre never perfect and that youre never good enough.
running gymnastics years
After 13 years of hard landings in gymnastics, one ski run had delivered the biggest injury of my career.