Shawn Johnson East

And he's like, I know.

And then we looked at the scoreboard and there's a number one by my name.

And we were like, well,

We got the gold, you know.

So it was just kind of this comedic experience of that's finally when I got everyone's validation from the world.

But I was like, you're validating me only because someone subjectively said, yeah, that's the best she's ever done.

When I can tell you right now, it wasn't.

I don't know.

It was just odd.

Yeah, really young.

No, no.

It was, again, it was luck.

I don't know.

I started at a gym when I was three.

It was like the only gymnastics gym in Des Moines.

My parents moved me to my coaches because he had just opened this gym and it saved them gas money.

No, just my coach moved to the United States to the University of Iowa to learn English in exchange for coaching their gymnastics team.

A few years later, he's like, I want to go open my own gym.

And he chose Des Moines, Iowa, which happened to be like down the road from my house.

My parents moved me at five to his gym because it saved them gas money, not because he wasn't anybody, you know, back then.