Olympic gold-medalist swimmer Janet Evans has been working intensely in the gym for the last two months: 35 hours a week of immersive training and brutal workouts to get herself in shape for this summer’s showcase event on NBC. Evans herself said, “I wanted to prove to myself that I could be an athlete out of the water.”

And so she shall when she takes on the ultimate athletic test: attempting circus tricks in “Celebrity Circus“, a judged reality show competition against such athletic greats as Wee Man, Christopher Knight, and Antonio Sabato, Jr.… wait, what? Did Jason Taylor forget to charge his cell phone again?

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