According to the current rules

For a moment, we seem we have lost her, that show-off we loved so much, the one who always escapes, even in extremis, who flings herself into the void without ever forgetting to salute us first. In an American TV programme a few months after her arrival, she stammers beseechingly: ‘I’d like to be able to rewrite everything. What I have said, what I have done, the way I was dressed… I’d like no one to remember my fishnet stockings, my make-up, the blue eyeshadow… I thought miniskirts were pretty. I would have liked somebody to teach me how to dress in the United States…’

Somebody to teach her. To rewrite her. To absolve her. The little communist bombarded with scores and numbers and words.

POINTS SCORING SYSTEM IN GYMNASTICS:

ACCORDING TO THE CURRENT RULES, THE JUDGES MAY TAKE INTO ACCOUNT FIFTY-FIVE POSSIBLE ERRORS IN THE EXECUTION OF A SKILL ON THE BEAM OR THE UNEVEN BARS. THERE ARE FIFTY-FIVE WAYS OF DEDUCTING A HUNDREDTH OF A POINT FROM 10, FIFTY-FIVE ERRORS TO AVOID IN LESS THAN A MINUTE AND A HALF: LOSS OF BALANCE, TOO LONG A PAUSE, A HESITATION, IMPROPERLY EXTENDED FEET ON TIPTOE, AN UNEXPECTED GESTURE, KNEES BENT TOO FAR, FORGETTING TO SALUTE THE JUDGES AT START AND FINISH.