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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After 13 years of hard landings in gymnastics, one ski run had delivered the biggest injury of my career.
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I fell in love with running, and I finally have time to do it now.
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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 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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We're taught at such a young age that you can always be better and that you're never perfect and that you're never good enough.
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Even the whole second half, we dug ourselves out of a 13-point lead (at the half), strictly by playing defense.
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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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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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The storm took place on the 29th and to say as of today, that's a long time to say I'm going to meet your needs, immediate needs. My immediate needs should have been taken care of a long time ago, so that's a problem for me.
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The test, as far as the intangibles go, was that we wanted to make sure that we came out with a lot of energy, and defensively we did that.