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In gymnastics, the maximum possible score was a perfect 10 until the rules were changed in 2006 by the International Gymnastics Federation (FIG). Currently, there are different top scores for various events based upon difficulty ratings, and no consistent perfect score.

Impetus for change

The scoring system came under review as a result of two incidents during the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece. In the men's individual all-around competition, South Korean Yang Tae-Young was awarded the bronze medal, rather than the gold, because of a scoring error, which the FIG decided to let stand. (However, both commentator Tim Daggett and Miles Avery, gold medalist Paul Hamm's coach, later reviewed tapes of Yang's performance and stated they found a second scoring error, in which he was not docked 0.2 points for making four holds instead of the maximum allowed three, which would have more than offset the first error.) The second controversy centered on Russian Alexei Nemov in the men's horizontal bar final. The crowd so raucously voiced its displeasure with Nemov's score (perceived as too low) that the final was stopped for 10-15 minutes. Finally, the judges raised his score (though not enough for a medal). When this did not satisfy the spectators, Nemov himself had to plead with the crowd to allow the competition to continue.

The new scoring system is open-ended, rewarding competitors for incorporating more difficult elements.

Criticism of the new system

The change has its share of critics. "It's crazy, terrible, the stupidest thing that ever happened to the sport of gymnastics," complained noted coach Béla Károlyi. "It's hard to understand. I don't even understand it," remarked gymnast Mary Lou Retton. Romanian gymnast Nadia Comăneci commented, "It's so hard to define sports like ours and we had something unique. The 10, it was ours first and now you give it away."

Perfect 10s

This list may be incomplete.

Olympics

Paris, 1924

22 men in rope-climbing, with one Albert Séguin getting a second 10 in the sidehorse vault

Montreal, 1976

Nadia Comăneci (7) - uneven bars (team compulsory, team optionals, individual all-around, event finals) and balance beam (team optionals, individual all-around, event finals);
Nellie Kim (2) - individual vault and floor exercise;

(Olympic database; Women's individual results; women's all-around results; women's team results)

Moscow, 1980

Zoltán Magyar (2) - individual and all-around pommel horse
Stoyan Deltchev - all-around rings
Alexander Dityatin - all-around vault
Michael Nikolay - all-around pommel horse
Alexander Tkachev - all-around high bar

(Men's all-around results; men's individual event results)

Los Angeles, 1984

Men

Li Ning (5) - individual floor exercise and pommel horse; pommel horse, rings, and vault in the team final
Tong Fei (4) - high bar in the individual, all-around, and team events; team rings
Koji Gushiken (3) - individual and team high bar; all-around vault
Lou Yun (3) - individual vault; vault in both rounds of the team final
Shinji Morisue (3) - high bar in the individual and both rounds of the team final
Peter Vidmar (3) - all-around high bar; pommel horse in the individual and team finals
Bart Conner (2) - parallel bars in both the team and individual events
Mitch Gaylord (2) - team parallel bars and rings
Tim Daggett - team high bar
Li Xiaoping - team pommel horse
Xu Zhiqiang - team high bar

Women

Julianne McNamara (5) - individual uneven bars and floor exercise; all-around uneven bars; team uneven bars and floor exercise
Ecaterina Szabo (4) - floor exercise; all-around balance beam; team vault and floor exercise
Ma Yanhong (3) - individual, all-around, and team uneven bars
Mary Lou Retton (3) - floor exercise and vault in the all-around; vault in the team event
Simona Păucă - team balance beam

(Men's results; women's results)

Seoul, 1988

Men

Dmitry Bilozerchev (4) - pommel horse; all-around pommel horse, rings, and vault
Vladimir Artemov (2) - all-around parallel bars and high bar
Zsolt Borkai - pommel horse
Csaba Fajkusz - all-around high bar
Gyorgy Guczoghy - all-around pommel horse
Lubomir Geraskov - pommel horse
Sylvio Kroll - all-around pommel horse
Valeri Liukin - all-around high bar

Women

Daniela Silivaş (7) - compulsory, team, all-around, and individual uneven bars, team balance beam, compulsory and all-around floor
Yelena Shushunova (4) - uneven bars and vault; all-around floor exercise and vault
Dagmar Kersten - uneven bars