Shawn Johnson East
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I did extracurricular activities.
I ran track.
I did all of it.
Yes.
I didn't technically graduate from school.
I had to tutor my last year because of the Olympics, but-
That little thing.
Yeah.
I that's also just like the luck of my upbringing and why I was so I'm so lucky.
My coach moved from China and in China, he was very used to a system where they were taken from their family at a very young age.
They were put into an institution.
They would train.
60 hours a week, like he didn't have a childhood.
And his dream was to come to the United States to open a gym and to raise Olympians who won medals, but who are also, as he would word it, children, in the sense of they had a normal life.
They went to school.
They went to prom.
We didn't train a lot of hours.
The average U.S.
gymnast back in my day would train
40, 50 hours a week and they would homeschool and they would spend like child actors.