Karen Springen
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Jun 18, 2008 07:04 PM
During the Olympics media summit in Chicago in mid-April, Newsweek's Karen
Springen talked with U.S. gymnast Shawn Johnson, 16, about her Olympics
aspirations and her emphasis on having "a normal life" -- including going to the prom.
Excerpts:
Shawn Johnson suggested she was an accidental Olympian. "I never
started gymnastics thinking I wanted
to be an Olympian," she says.
"It was just always something I enjoyed."
At age 3,
she started tumbling. "My parents put me in gymnastics
because I had way too
much energy
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