The 2024 Paris Olympics brought countless shows of strength and speed on the track, in the pool and atop pretty much every gymnastics apparatus inside the city’s Bercy Arena. 

And then there was the little-celebrated feat taking place just steps away in the stands. In the event of traveling with three kids under 5, Olympic gymnast Shawn Johnson East and her husband Andrew East have a strong case for gold. 

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

And, dare we say, they totally stuck the landing—sandwiching their visit 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 definite highlight for the athlete—who flipped her way to four medals at the 2008 Beijing Olympics—was attending the gymnastics all-around competition in Paris with Andrew, 32, Drew and her mom Teri Johnson.