Shawn Johnson East

You're just saying that because the judges think it is.

Maybe.

Very hypothetical because I don't know.

I won three silvers back to back.

So kind of by the time that I got to the very last competition, I really didn't care.

I was also raised by my coach.

I started with my coach when I was three.

So I was with him my whole life.

He never valued medals and he never valued scores ever.

Could have cared less about them.

For him, it was always effort.

And so I kind of just had this wiring in my brain of subjective scoring sucks and you can't control it, but I can control how well I do in a day.

And so we always had this ritual after our competition of like, how do you feel you did?

And if I could answer honestly and be like, it wasn't my best or it was my best, that was like the greatest celebration I could ever get out of my coach.

So when I got the golds, all I remember is me and my coach laughing.

probably out of like, we were just completely exhausted.

We were Looney Tunes by then.

But I remember him saying, how do you feel you did?

Almost like laughing at the question.

And I was like, not my best.