Shawn Johnson Quotes About Training
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I feel like if you compare the commentary, what's covered with female athletics, as with men. On any given day, if a guy competes, you're going to critique his technique and his performance, training. With a girl, you don't do the same thing. You might mention a little bit of that, but you're also going to get what she was wearing, how she performed, what she looked like. I feel like it should be the same.
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My coach, Liang Chow, had one rule while I was training for the 2008 Olympics: no skiing. I could do anything I wanted outside the gym, he said, except ski.
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I'm doing four hours of gymnastics training a day, six days a week and then an extra two to three hours in a fitness center as well.
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It's been strange and weird watching the other girls at the U.S. Olympic trials just because I was training to be out there myself.
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Of course, when you're training your whole life to get to the Olympics, you train for gold.
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