Olympic Gold Medal-Winner Returns Home

We'll get to the reaction to Hillary Clinton's speech last night in another post, but more important than that is the return "home" of our "cool" Iowa Olympian, Miss Shawn Johnson. She did take gold in the all-around, but she acquitted herself very nicely anyway, with one gold, and three silver medals!! Welcome Home Shawn~~and start preparing for 2012.

The story at Yahoo Sports News reads:
The story, as told by Shawn Johnson, goes like this: She was headed to David Letterman’s show Monday from Chicago when the airline reported a problem.

Apparently, the pilot had an incident when he heard Johnson was on his plane.“I guess he just like freaked out and hit his head,” Johnson said Tuesday to a crowd of thousands in her first appearance back to her hometown. “They had to take him to the hospital for stitches.”

The hysteria continued Tuesday night at the Wells Fargo Arena, where the gold-medal winning gymnast was feted with a reception worthy of a rock star.

Johnson, 16, won one gold and three silver medals at the Olympics. Iowa has seen Johnson in several iterations: her ever-present grin at the Beijing Olympics, a bronze sculpture in the Iowa Hall of Fame, and an all-butter representation kept in a cooler at the Iowa State Fair.
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Shawn Johnson Gets Her GOLD

We finally get to congratulate our Iowa beauty Shawn Johnson, for winning Gold!! It is nice to see, after all she has won 3 silvers, and she has shown poise and grace throughout!! She hopefully will have a chance for more Gold in 2012, but the story today is Gold on the beam!! Congratulations!!

From Yahoo Sports:
Shawn Johnson finally got her Olympic gold medal in the last event of the women’s competition Tuesday night, the balance beam.

Johnson, bothered by a headache before the competition, nailed her routine that is chock-full of difficult tricks, earning a 16.225. Her grin was a thousand times wider than the 4-inch-wide beam she had just conquered.

“This is what we expected to see,” her coach Liang Chow said. “The thing I really am pleaed with is she was a little under the weather and she still was able to do a wonderful routine.”
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