Today during history we were fortunate to not have to sit through some lecture on how some person did something to help someone and so on, we got to have a game of trivia. With Tess on our team we were sure to do well (i swear that girl is a walking, talking trivia book). We took off coming second only one point behind. Unfortunately we fell behind quickly. But! just our luck the question came up "What is the highest score a single judge can give you in gymnastics?" and me being a religious gymnastics follower of course knew there is effectively no limit, my history teacher, who i am sure does not follow gymnastics more than i do and if she does i will be absolutely gobsmacked that she didn't know the answer. I put the answer down that it is infinite depending on your difficulty score as it is a combination of your difficulty value and execution (out of 10). Before i was allowed to explain Mrs History Teacher was quick to shut me up leaving me fuming inside.
If 10 is the limit how did i score 13.25 on vault on saturday, How did Nastia Liukin and He Kexin score 16.725 on bars at the 2008 Olympics.
Mrs History Teacher, if you ever read this, i am right. Trust me. Who else but a religious follower of the sport would know that Nadia Comaneci was discovered in her school playground by the famous Bela Karolyi whilst pretending to be a gymnast. She defected to America in 1989. She got a perfect 10 seven times in the 1976 Olympics games. The score board did not allow a 10.00 to be shown so the score showed up as 1.00, audience was shocked. Her acro series on beam was backwalkover, back handspring step out, back handspring step out. Need i say more. Shawn johnson was walking at 9 months, started gymnastics at age 2 and moved to her current training facility at age 6 (99% sure about age of moving gym)
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