Shawn Johnson East

You can't move the bars farther apart, closer together, raise them higher off the ground or lower to the ground.

Everybody has to compete on that same exact equipment.

If you are over 5'5", your feet are going to touch the ground.

It makes it really, really difficult to do gymnastics.

In collegiate gymnastics, you can change anything.

You can raise the bars.

Yes.

So that naturally, if you're going towards like Olympic gymnastics, weeds a lot of people out.

It's harder.

I will say just like natural physics of it, though.

A 5'6 girl flipping her body around versus a 4'11 is just more difficult.

So it's kind of like jockeys.

Your natural makeup makes you probably naturally more qualified for some things versus the other.

I'm never going to play in the WNBA.

Never.

But gymnastics worked out great.

Yeah.

And that's where I'm saying stars have to align.

There's a rule at the Olympics now where you have to be 16 the year of the Olympics in order to compete.

It's like a child labor protection law that went into effect...