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- Back home, in Oklahoma,
- Shannon began training
- with coach Steve Nunno,
- who had been an
- assistant to legendary
- coach Bela Karolyi (who coached Nadia
- Comaneci and Mary Lou Retton). Coach
- Nunno drove Shannon hard. She trained six
- days a week, working on flips, twists, and
- creating her own special moves.
-
- But all that hard work paid off. In 1991,
- Shannon became the national balance beam
- champion. At the 1991 World Gymnastic
- Championships, Shannon helped the U.S.
- team win the silver medal, and she won an
- individual silver medal on the uneven bars.
- That same year, the WomenΓÇÖs Sports
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