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

Author: Dvora Meyers

Narrator: Elise Arsenault

Unabridged: 10 hr 18 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 07/05/2016

Synopsis

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.

About Dvora Meyers

Dvora Meyers is a New York-based award-winning writer and journalist. She is a former gymnast and in 2012, she provided all of the Olympic gymnastics coverage for Deadspin and Jezebel, chronicling the results of the competition as well as her own commentary. Her work on the sport has also appeared in ESPN, Slate, VICE, and the Atlantic. Her other non-gymnastics related writing has been published in the New York Times, Elle, Tablet, New York Magazine, and several other publications.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Lauren on July 04, 2016

I first met Dvora Meyers at a sidewalk café in Soho on a hot June evening in 2012, shortly after USA Gymnastics announced that they would not allow Chellsie Memmel to compete at nationals based on her lack of preparedness. As both reporters and extreme gym fans, we met to discuss this whole situatio......more

Goodreads review by Sydelle on December 20, 2020

(2.5 stars) First I want to address my biggest grievance with this book: though there is an afterward that addresses the sex abuse perpetuated by Larry Nassar, he is nonetheless quoted as an expert on athlete safety many times throughout the book. The Karolyi Ranch is considered, at best, to be murk......more

Goodreads review by Grace on April 09, 2020

This book had the misfortune of being published in July 2016, just months before Simone Biles dominated at the Rio Games and Larry Nassar was exposed for sexual abuse charges. Although Meyers cannot be faulted for information she did not know at the time of writing, much of the book becomes obsolete......more

Goodreads review by Ang on March 08, 2021

Pretty good, though I would have appreciated a better explanation about how open ended scoring works, point by point.......more

Goodreads review by PinkAmy loves books, cats and naps on August 20, 2020

5 STARS for research 1 STAR for interest THE END OF THE PERFECT 10 is a comprehensive and very dry look at gymnastics scoring from Nadia’s perfect 10 to the changes in code of points that exists today. Dvora Meyers did exhaustive research on the subject, detailing the ins & outs a for politics of sco......more

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