OlderWed, 20 August 2008 at 11:15 pm
Shawn Johnson is Gold Glorious
USA gymnast Shawn Johnson came up big on the balance beam and won gold at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing on Tuesday. Her score of 16.225 bested teammate Nastia Liukin who scored 16.025. Cheng Fei of China came in third at 15.95.
The U.S. and China came away as the top two performing countries in women’s gymnastics at this year’s Olympics.
Also pictured below is Nastia Liukin winning her gold medal in the women’s all-around competition last week. Did you know she’s only 5′3″? Her legs make her seem way taller!
FYI: Shawn Johnson is technically a dwarf, coming in at 4′9″ (4′10″ or shorter is the standard).
10+ pictures of Shawn Johnson and Nastia Liukin getting gold glorious…
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I am SO happy Shawn Johnson finally got her gold medal!
I feel that Shawn & Nastia were both robbed on different events and it was unfair that they didn’t win more gold medals.
They are both amazing gymnasts & i hope to see them is 2012 : )
As a no american, the only american sportist I like and makes me happy when she goes very well is Shaw Johnson she is always adorable and very pleasent with press but with others who are in competition with her.
The Americans are getting soundly beaten by the Chinese in the gold medal tally by a long way.
Each country compiles their medal tally by how many GOLD
medals won.
The U.S is the ONLY country that compiles the list by medals overall,
because they can’t stand the fact they are getting beaten.
SORE LOSERS!!!!!!
Love Shawn and Nastia. They’re simply wonderful.
The olympics is a great way to forget about racial and ethnic differences and instead embrace world harmony.
#53, you sound like you’re the sour grapes if you’re bringing up something as trivial and negative as your thoughts. But heck, opinions are like a$$h0les, everyone has one, so, you’re entitled to yours, even if it is asinine.
for those of you saying you like Nastia over Shawn because “gracefulness” is better than “stockiness” gymnastics…what the hell people?! i’m not gonna rip on Nastia- she IS a great gymnast, but let’s be honest and real here and compare the true values: sportsmanship, technicalities, difficulties, and execution style.
critics say the balance beam is the best test of a gymnast’s preparedness in physicality and style…so all i’m saying is y’all better replay them youtube clips!!!
One last thing. Despite all the controversies that have surrounded the games and China, many of the athletes should be proud, as they have displayed great sportsmanship. Not all of them may have, but at least, the majority had been admirably graceful with their losses.
lanie, i totally agree.
I LOVE SHAWN JOHNSON!
congratulations, you deserve everything you have achieved and more!
i was rooting for you in the all-around, but your grace and and honest pride for your silver and nastia’s gold only made me more proud and honored to say that i am an American:]
CONGRATULATIONS SHAWN!!!!!
I LOVE SHAWN JOHNSON!
congratulations, you deserve everything you have achieved and more!
i was rooting for you in the all-around, but your grace and and honest pride for your silver and nastia’s gold only made me more proud and honored to say that i am an American:]
CONGRATULATIONS SHAWN!!!!!
I love Shawn. She’s definitely got a great attitude. I was a little annoyed by Nastia’s pouting and the way she crossed her arms like a petulant little girl when the Chinese girl won gold. Even if she was rightfully upset … she needs to control that and not make it so obvious. It’s hard to do, but it made her look like a spoiled child and that’s never a good image.
Shawn, on the other hand, seems to be an all around good sport. She’s a compact little firecracker who is all muscle and grin and I really did like watching her. She didn’t HAVE to win the gold to be proud of herself. I think Nastia pushes herself and punishes herself too hard. To get a medal at all is an honor and she should have been gracefully sliding into that silver medal the way she gracefully does her routines. Instead she was ungrateful and pulled quite a few dirty looks.
Heightism is the new racism, it’s blatantly obvious and deeply ingrained in today’s American (western) culture, in large part thanks to the media. People get nasty remarks for something they have absolutely no control over, same as skin color. Just look at Hayden Pannettiere, Tom Cruise, …
The Chinese are these days taking it even a few steps further, setting height requirements for jobs.
I love Shawn Johnson
shawn is so much better than liukin!!!!!
dont say liukin is robbed !rediculous !
I love these two gymnasts. So cute in very different ways, but both so talented. Shawn’s smile is just the best.
Also, who said dwarfs can’t be in the Olympics? There’s no rule about that, is there? As long as they qualify, they can join.
HOW OLD IS SHE?
SHE LOOKS 10.
IS she cheating and leiing about her age, look how she looks so young.
sound famliar !
no 1 was robed, they weren’t good enoght, no everyone is looking at thing in amrica clour eyes,
no if we are talking about 2004 and that mn that got the gold madle he didn’t deserve and the silver that should have gone to namov that is a rubary.
atlanta was cheating and bias from the judges-for the us!!!!
that is how everyone so it some cry babies for the us.
Ki, please. I’ll resist parsing your spelling errors, seeing that you are probably a non-English speaker. But for fookin’ sake, grow up!
Up till you yapped, nobody here has brought up the age controversy surrounding the Chinese gymnastics team. Instead, some of us have expressed how happy we are at how despite their language barrier, it is wonderful to see that Shawn and most of the other athletes in the competition can accept defeat with pride and grace while still being able to embrace cultural differences.
I think Shawn is a great example of what the Olympics is all about, that it’s not so much about medals but just being part of the games. Her hugs with fellow competitors says a lot about her character.
And come on, the Olympics has countries being represented by only one or 3 people, and that’s a rather big deal, wouldn’t you say? Those countries may not even garner medals, but so what? At least, they participated. Or how about a South African woman swimming with just one leg?
The point is, the Olympic games is not sticking it to the U.S., even though it is good to know that the U.S. doesn’t always have to be the best. It’s just about the games and win or lose, those athletes would have come away with a great experience.
^^^ Oops, meant to say that the Olympics is not about sticking it to the U.S. It’s too early to be typing.
yayyyyyyyyy she my fav
She’s a great athelete who has obviously dedicated a lot of time and effort into perfecting her talent and the fact that she is a ‘drawf’ is relevant how?
Harlow, don’t bring race into this. If you’re as cultured as you want to come across, you should know that that only stirs up more controversy.
Okay, JustJared’s comments may have offended some, but come on people he’s a blogger! Not in Mensa!!
thats just RUDE calling someone a dwarf!!!!!
well he is a blogger, a gossip blogger where thousands of people visit his site. he is not a normal blogger.
even if its “technically” true what he says about dwarfism, you just dont say that out loud.
what happened to common courtesy and just shutting the help up?
i guess its out of the window.
shame…
i liked this site because there is rarely any bashing and negative stuff about celebrities.
now, im having second thoughts.
THAT’S DISGUSTING — CALLING SOMEONE A DWARF!! WHAT THE HELL DOES HER HEIGHT HAVE TO DO WITH ANYTHING!!! I’M REALLY OFFENDED AND I’M NOT A DWARF!!! I THINK YOU NEED TO APOLOGIZE FOR THAT VERY IGNORANT REMARK!!!
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