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It's nearly every country's tactic to keep their greatest competitors a secret.

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Shawn Johnson
Age: 32
Born: 1992
Born: January 19
Artistic Gymnast
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Des Moines
Iowa
Shawn Machel Johnson East
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I still can't believe I'm an Olympic athlete.
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I don't want to be all power and muscle.
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Everything for me started with my love of the sport. In society we're losing the fun with kids and pushing success on them too hard. Success comes from fun.
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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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That's the drama of our sport. Our margin of error is so small that anything can happen.
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People put too much emphasis on looks.
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