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The relative strength of world-class gymnasts is among the highest of any athletes in the world.

Twenty years later, after so many gymnasts were achieving perfect 10s, the International Federation of Gymnastics changed the scoring system to make a 10 more difficult to achieve. Today, gymnasts continue to exhibit unbelievable skills. They’ve become more athletic, so the scoring system was recently changed once again after the 2004 Olympic Games to involve a very complex judging procedure. In today’s sport, you’ll no longer see the perfect 10. Gymnasts now get two scores in a scoring system officially known as “the Code of Points.” One score is for execution (E-score), and gymnasts can earn up to 10 points. The other score is for degree of difficulty (D-score), and gymnasts rarely earn higher than a 6.5. That’s because the International Federation has

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