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Shawn Johnson and husband Andrew East have experienced several firsts together since tying the knot in 2016, but taking in the Olympics as a family has not yet been one of them.<\/p>\n
That will change this summer when retired gymnast Johnson, a four-time Olympic medalist, travels to Paris to serve as a Yahoo Sports correspondent for the 2024 Olympic Games, bringing East, 32, and their three young children, daughter Drew, 4, and sons Jett, 2, and 6-month-old Barrett, across the Atlantic.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m very excited, we have yet to experience an Olympics together,\u201d Johnson, 32, told The Post in a recent interview. \u201cIn 2016, we had just gotten married, he went off to the NFL, I went off to Brazil to work, so we haven\u2019t gotten to experience an Olympics together or with the kids, which I think will be a really chaotic but exciting time.\u201d<\/p>\n
Shortly after marrying East, a former NFL long snapper, Johnson traveled to Brazil to cover gymnastics at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, where phenom Simone Biles won individual gold medals in the all-around, floor and vault, with the U.S. picking up gold for the team event. She was awarded the bronze medal for the balance beam.<\/p>\n
With Biles, 27, expected to make her anticipated return to the Olympics this summer, Johnson \u2014 who won a gold medal for the balance beam at the 2008 Games in Beijing and three silver medals (team, all-around and floor exercise) \u2014 believes the seven-time Olympic medalist is \u201cthe greatest athlete we\u2019ll ever see\u201d in the sport of gymnastics.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe\u2019s the greatest of all time,\u201d Johnson gushed of Biles. \u201c\u2026 People, I think, will catch up to her difficulty level, but the gap to which she\u2019s been able to create in our sport transcends everything. She\u2019s phenomenal in more ways than anybody can ever understand, unless you\u2019re within the elite level of gymnastics. My jaw is on the floor watching her.\u201d<\/p>\n
This year\u2019s Summer Games come three years after Biles endured a mind-body disconnect \u2014 the \u201ctwisties\u201d \u2014\u00a0when competing in Tokyo in 2021. She subsequently withdrew from events to focus on her mental health.<\/p>\n
Though the ordeal itself was heartbreaking, Johnson saw just how much Biles was juggling on the world\u2019s biggest stage amid the fallout of the USA Gymnastics sex abuse scandal.<\/p>\n
\u201cSimone was a huge voice in all of that and changing the face of gymnastics forever. She truly had such a huge responsibility put on her to fix it, unfairly, but she was one of the front women of it. And I think with all of it going on, it didn\u2019t surprise me. It made me really sad that it happened that way but I think because it happened, she changed the sport even more and gave all these little girls and boys a voice they hadn\u2019t had before,\u201d Johnson said. <\/p>\n
\u201cTo be able to see an athlete put their health over the competition at an Olympic level I think changes lives for centuries to come.\u201d<\/p>\n
Biles won the bronze medal for the balance beam and the silver for the team event at the Tokyo Games.<\/p>\n
With the Paris Games getting underway on July 26, Johnson is eager to see how Biles\u2019 \u201cjourney plays out\u201d following a mesmerizing showing at the Core Hydration Classic in May, when she earned her best all-around total (59.5 points) since her 2023 return to competition, according to NBC Sports.<\/p>\n
\u201cBeing able to watch her at the Core Hydration Classic was really cool,\u201d Johnson said. \u201cShe killed it, she looked better than ever.\u201d<\/p>\n
Beyond seeing Biles potentially write the next chapter of her prolific career \u2014 the athletes seeking a spot on the Paris roster will first compete at the U.S. Olympic Trials later this month before they\u2019re officially selected \u2014 Johnson is excited to take in the Olympic action with her family in what she believes will feel like a \u201cfull-circle moment.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI do think personally it will feel really special as this crazy, full-circle moment where I\u2019m going back to the Games, we\u2019re going to watch gymnastics, we\u2019re going to go to the finals, my daughter will be there with me, that is a really cool moment and one will be a core memory for myself,\u201d Johnson said.<\/p>\n
Family is at the core for Johnson and East, who founded the Moment Makers Foundation in 2023 which \u201caims to find, foster and fuel meaningful moments\u201d for families, per the organization\u2019s website.<\/p>\n
This year, they\u2019re providing $250,000 to help parents competing in the Olympics and Paralympics with child care. <\/p>\n
\u201cI had a dream I was competing at the Olympics now, which would never happen, with my three babies and I woke up and I told Andrew, could you imagine competing, being a parent? Cause neither of us has experienced that and I just had thought of, if there are any parents who are competing who have to worry about the logistics and the burden of costs when it comes to their family supporting them, if there\u2019s anything we can do to fix that or alleviate that, we wanted to,\u201d Johnson said.<\/p>\n
Although Johnson has a stacked schedule leading up to the Games, including family reunions and a cousins\u2019 retreat, she is savoring family time with her nearest and dearest.<\/p>\n
\u201cI love celebrating family time and cooking together,\u201d said Johnson, who recently partnered with Kraft National Cheese.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m a parent to toddlers who love nothing more than a grilled cheese \u2026 I always joke that my kids would eat nothing but cheese as a dinner.\u201d<\/p>\n
Johnson and her family will continue to expand their palettes overseas as they continue their European adventure after the Olympics.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re going to end it off by going to Italy for a week to do nothing but just eat all the good food and lounge and sit on the beach,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
But when they\u2019re in France, Johnson intends to monopolize every moment there.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn Paris, we\u2019re the travelers where we don\u2019t like to sit down and do nothing, we jam-pack as much in as we possibly can,\u201d she shared. \u201cIn Paris, we want to do the tours, we want to go see the museums and do everything, literally everything.\u201d<\/p>\n
The 2024 Summer Olympics run through Aug. 11.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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