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I fell in love with running, and I finally have time to do it now.

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Shawn Johnson
Age: 32
Born: 1992
Born: January 19
Artistic Gymnast
Athlete
Gymnast
Des Moines
Iowa
Shawn Machel Johnson East
Shawn Johnson
Shawn Machel Johnson
Time
Love
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I don't think I've ever not gotten nervous. When you work so hard for one special day or routine, you want to perform it better than you ever have. We always say at our gym, If you lose the nerves, you lose the sport.
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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 told myself after 2008 that I was done for good. But they say you can't keep a gymnast away from her sport.
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I started taking gymnastic classes when I was 3 years old.
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I was always known as that stocky, muscular, powerful, short, athlete. People always wondered if I was on steroids, and it was because I wasn't that long and lean, flexible, artistic gymnast. It didn't affect me too much but it got to the point where I tried to be that long and lean gymnast, and it just wasn't possible.
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I always feel like I'm the young one, I'm the small one.
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People only see gymnastics on TV and in the Olympics at such an extreme. So it can be intimidating.
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That's the drama of our sport. Our margin of error is so small that anything can happen.
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I get less and less sleep these days, so when I have any down time all I want to do is sleep!
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I feel like when there's so much conversation about women's athletics right now, we need to focus on their performance and their skill.
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I don't want to be all power and muscle.
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Injury taught me I need to learn how to face challenges.
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It sounds funny, but the 2008 Olympics were something that just kind of happened, and I was lucky they came at a point when I was uninjured and well prepared. As a gymnast, you can't ask for much more.
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When I was 3 my parents put me in gymnastics because I was a bundle of energy and they just didn't know what to do with me! They put me in a Tots class and I just fell in love with it.
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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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Staying healthy and consistent is paramount.
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I have a chaperone everywhere I go - my mom.
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To have any doubt in your body is the biggest weakness an athlete can have. There are times when I physically can't get myself to go for a skill because I'm thinking, 'My knee hurts really bad.'
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I have a lot of expectations and a lot of goals I want to fulfill, but the biggest dream is still to make the Olympic team for London.
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I was able to do Classics, the U.S. national championships and the Pan American Games and feel like I improved with each meet, but I was still struggling with a lot of residual pain from the two surgeries.
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