肖恩?約翰遜：美國體操新近崛起的一顆新星

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  Fact file: Shawn Johnson

  Sport: Artistic gymnastics

  Born: 19 January 1992

  Country: US

  Height: 4 9

  Weight: 41kg

  Nickname: Peanut, Bubbly

  Gold medal in Beijing Olympics:

  Balance beam

  Shawn Johnson is young, beautiful, rich and famous. She has an Olympic gold. Shes been on television. She advertises video gymnastics games and she is sponsored by Nike. Shawn Johnson has everything a girl could want. Or has she?

  Shawn Johnson was born a gymnast. As soon as she could walk she began climbing the furniture and jumping off tables. She started gymnastics class when she was three and she won the World all-round title when she was fifteen. (An all-around gymnast competes in every event, not just one.)

  Everybody was sure she would win the Olympic all-around title at Beijing a year later, but she didnt. She only won Gold for the Balance Beam. It was her team mate, Nastia Liokin, who won the all-around title.

  However, when Shawn got back to America she was famous. You could see her face on chat shows, in advertisements, on bottles of Coca-Cola and on cereal packets. She stopped training and put on weight. In January 2010, she went skiing and hurt her knee. It was a bad accident but it helped her make an important decision. She decided to give up her Hollywood lifestyle. She wanted to get back to the gym, she wanted to compete in the 2012 Olympics and she wanted to get the all-round title shed missed in 2008.

  It was a brave decision. She had been away from the sport for two years, she had a knee injury and she would be four years older at the time of the Games. She knew it would be difficult:

  A comeback in gymnastics is almost impossible in itself. Add to it an injury, why would you even try?

  Shawn got back to full training in August 2010, but her knee was not strong enough. In September 2011 the team was chosen for the World Championships, but Shawn was not in the team.

  She now has many months of hard training ahead. She does not know whether she will be chosen for the Olympic team or left behind.

  The hardest thing is not knowing if Im going to make it.

  Will she be chosen for the team? Will she get her all-around title? Who knows, but if there were medals for bravery, Shawn Johnson would certainly get her Gold!

  小編：肖恩約翰遜，1992年1月生，是美國體操新近崛起的一顆新星，在2007年的全美錦標賽上勇奪個人全能冠軍。在北京奧運會上奪得一金三銀的好成績。1995年開始體操訓練，師從于中國教練喬良；屬于全能型選手，強項是自由體操。在2007年斯圖加特體操世錦賽上，初出茅廬的她一鳴驚人，連奪女團、個人全能和自由體操三項冠軍，并榮膺當年國際體聯最佳體操運動員。她是體操場上一顆耀眼的新星，已成為美國體操隊新一代領軍人物。