The Olympic trials are still nearly four months off, but Shawn Johnson already is feeling the gym walls closing in. "It's starting to get really nerve-racking," the planet's best female gymnast was saying yesterday afternoon, surrounded by cameras and microphones and tape recorders and notepads on the floor of Madison Square Garden. (Full article: 828 words)

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