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    The End of the Perfect 10: The Making and Breaking of Gymnastics' Top Score from Nadia to Now
    The End of the Perfect 10: The Making and Breaking of Gymnastics' Top Score from Nadia to Now
    The End of the Perfect 10: The Making and Breaking of Gymnastics' Top Score from Nadia to Now
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    The End of the Perfect 10: The Making and Breaking of Gymnastics' Top Score from Nadia to Now

    Written by Dvora Meyers

    Narrated by Elise Arsenault

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    It was the team finals of women's gymnastics in the 2012 Olympics, and McKayla Maroney was on top of her game. The sixteen-year-old U.S. gymnast was performing arguably the best vault of all time, launching herself unimaginably high into the air and sticking a flawless landing. When her score came, many were baffled: 16.233. Three tenths of a point stood between her and a perfect score. If that vault wasn't perfection, what was?

    For years, gymnastics was scored on a 10.0 scale. When this scoring system caused major judging controversies at the 2004 Olympics, international elite gymnastics made the switch to the open-ended scoring system it uses today, forever altering the sport in the process.

    Gymnastics insider Dvora Meyers examines the evolution of elite women's gymnastics over the last few decades. With insight, flair, and a boundless love for the sport, Meyers answers questions that gymnastics fans have been asking since the last perfect score was handed out over twenty years ago. She reveals why successful female gymnasts are older and more athletic than they have ever been before, how the United States became a gymnastics powerhouse, and what the future of gymnastics will hold.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateJul 5, 2016
    ISBN9781515976202
    The End of the Perfect 10: The Making and Breaking of Gymnastics' Top Score from Nadia to Now

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    • 4/5
      Very interesting saga of modern gymnastics, with a focus on women's gymnastics. The book is obviously written by an internet superfan of gymnastics, which sometimes gets in the way of the story. Having once read Little Girls in Pretty Boxes, I was eager to read an updated look into the sport and understand how things had changed (and which things didn't) since the publication of that expose. The biggest issue with this book is the multitude of bad pop culture analogies, which basically all should have been removed by a better editor. But if you can ignore your impulse to eye-roll comparisons to TV shows, this is a good read for those interested in women in sports.
    • 5/5
      Engaging history of women's gymnastics. Provides lots of interesting insights into how the current training system of the U.S. national team developed, and what college gymnastics (and recruiting) is like.