Sixteen-year-old Shawn Johnson will feel the weight of competing against the worlds best gymnasts on her tiny 4 foot 8 inch frame and is preparing to defend her stance as world all-around champion. Johnson won every international competition that she entered in 2007, her first year facing those challenges and has risen to fame for her all-around talents and charisma. The teen heads to Beijing with the hopes of becoming only the third U.S. women to claim all-around gold following Mary Lou Retton (1984) and Carly Patterson (2004). Johnson is favored to achieve her goal of the top prize and luckily, she thrives under pressure. Regardless of how she does, shes already a hometown hero. The Des Moines, Iowa native has a bronze version of herself stationed in the Iowa Hall of Pride and this month shell appear as a butter sculpture next to the annual butter cow at the Iowa State Fair. Watch her on NBC Sunday (8/10) Primetime (9:30pm 12:00am EST), Tuesday (8/12) 10:30pm 12:00am EST, Thursday (8/14) 11:30pm 1:00am EST and Sunday (8/17) thru Wednesday (8/20) during the Primetime hours.
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