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 STUTTGART, Germany (AP) - Nastia Liukin and Shawn Johnson each bring a distinct brand of brilliance to the U.S. gymnastics team: One's a tightrope-walking ballerina, the other a high-flying acrobat. And now, you can call them both reigning world champions.
Johnson practically jumped out of the gym to add a gold on floor to her all-around title at the world championships Sunday, while Liukin steadied herself on the beam to take her first individual gold of the meet and make up for her disappointing fall in the all-around.
"I'm still a world champion," Liukin said. "Yeah, it's not as big or prestigious as the all-around, but a world champion is a world champion and I'll never lose that title."
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