The 2024 Paris Olympics introduced numerous reveals of power and pace on the observe, within the pool and atop just about each gymnastics equipment inside town’s Bercy Arena. 

And then there was the little-celebrated feat happening simply steps away within the stands. In the occasion of touring with three youngsters below 5, Olympic gymnast Shawn Johnson East and her husband Andrew East have a powerful case for gold. 

“We will be a circus walking,” Shawn, 32, joked with E! News earlier than making the journey from Nashville to France with daughter Drew, 4, and sons Jett, 3, and Bear, 8 months, “but we will be there.”

And, dare we are saying, they completely caught the touchdown—sandwiching their go to to the Games with jaunts to London and Sorrento, Italy. 

“It actually exceeded any and all expectations,” admitted Shawn. “It was chaotic, but actually manageable.” 

A particular spotlight for the athlete—who flipped her option to 4 medals on the 2008 Beijing Olympics—was attending the gymnastics all-around competitors in Paris with Andrew, 32, Drew and her mother Teri Johnson.