Iowa could not be more proud of its little ball of perk, Olympian gymnast Shawn Johnson. She’s favored to win gold in Beijing, so much so that we wouldn’t be surprised to find out Wheaties has already assigned a graphic designer to work on her box. They’ve even started building statues for the 16-year-old lass in the Hawkeye State.

(This guy also worked on Tiger Woods’ knee)

Bronze is fine and all, but Shawn knows she’s truly loved by her fellow Iowans now that they’ve sculpted a life-size version of the pint-sized gymnast in butter, the chosen medium of art installations across the Midwest, just in time for the Iowa State Fair. Once the other gymnasts find out about this, they might as well skip the smog and stay home.
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