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Who Is Shawn Johnson?
American gymnast Shawn Johnson won gold at the Summer Olympics in Beijing, China. After winning Season 8 of Dancing with the Stars in , Johnson began training for the Summer Olympics.
However, the athlete's Olympic hopes came to end in June , when she announced that she would be retiring from competitive gymnastics due to problems with a surgically repaired knee.
Early Years
Born on January 19, , in Des Moines, Iowa, Johnson is the only child of parents Doug and Teri Johnson.
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She was an energetic child, and Johnson's parents enrolled her in gymnastics when she was only 3 years old. A few years later, she began practicing with instructor Liang Chow at his training facility in Des Moines.
Olympics
Johnson excelled at gymnastics from a young age.
It wasn't long after Chow began coaching Johnson that he knew she would be a viable Olympics competitor. After years of tedious training on the floor and balance beam, Johnson finally met the