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Chalked Up: Inside Elite Gymnastics' Merciless Coaching, Overzealous Parents, Eating Disorders, and Elusive Olympic Dreams Books
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 796.44092
EAN: 9780061351464
ISBN: 0061351466
Label: William Morrow
Manufacturer: William Morrow
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 304
Publication Date: May 01, 2008
Publisher: William Morrow
Release Date: April 22, 2008
Sales Rank: 51935
Studio: William Morrow
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The true story of the 1986 U.S. National Gymnastics champion whose lifelong dream was to compete in the Olympics, until anorexia, injuries, and coaching abuses nearly destroyed her
Fanciful dreams of gold medals and Nadia Comaneci led Jennifer Sey to become a gymnast at the age of six. She was a natural at the sport, and her early success propelled her family to sacrifice everything to help her become, by age eleven, one of Americas elite, competing at prestigious events worldwide alongside such future gymnastics luminaries as Mary Lou Retton.
But as she set her sights higher and higher—the senior national team, the World Championships, the 1988 Olympics—Sey began to change, putting her needs, her health, and her well-being aside in the name of winning. And the adults in her life refused to notice her downward spiral.
In Chalked Up Sey reveals the tarnish behind her gold medals. A powerful portrait of intensity and drive, eating disorders and stage parents, abusive coaches and manipulative businessmen, denial and the seduction of success, it is the story of a young girl whose dreams would become eclipsed by the adults around her. As she recounts her experiences, Sey sheds light on the destructiveness of our winning-is-everything culture where underage and underweight girls are celebrated and on the need for balance in childrens lives.
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Jennifer Sey is telling her story. She is not preaching nor is she telling you to remove your child from the sport of gymnastics. Although a painful side of gymnastics, which so many of us are scared to acknowledge, it is a reality in the elite world of gymnastics. Twenty two years after winning the national title, a crown that all elite gymnasts dream of, Sey still struggles with a love/hate gymnastics relationship. Before judging Sey, stating that your gymnast is perfectly happy in the gym and ... Read More
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A memoir from a gymnast's point of view is long overdue in the oftentimes tedious litany of cautionary tales about high-level gymnastics. Written by an athlete, not a journalist, Jennifer Sey's Chalked Up finally fills this void. She painstakingly renders her unlikely rise to gymnastics superstardom and subsequent fall into depression and obscurity. Her story is brave, honest, and raw at times. Readers who are former gymnasts likely will have a strong emotional reaction (one way or the other) to ... Read More
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I feel sorry for the girl who went through many of the things described in this book. I have no pity for the grown woman who seems intent upon skewering every person in her past who did not give her what she thinks she was owed.
I think there are objective problems with the sport of gymnastics. The point is well taken that little girls should not be submitted to a scoring system that is based upon deductions and counting "imperfections." Clearly, grown men whose careers involve close ... Read More
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Thanks Jennifer for your honest account of your personal story. As a mom with three kids and a family chock full of former elite athletes, I struggle daily with the notion of how much pressure and competitiveness we subject children to. The culture of "positive pushing" is pervasive and your story shows how things can go sideways with even the best of intentions.
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At the age of nineteen, Jennifer Sey was the number one gymnast in the United States. She had 3% body fat, had never had her period, and trained for eight hours a day. Her family had relocated to bring her closer to the best trainers, her coaches were relentless, and just one year before she had broken her leg. This is an amazing and powerful memoir about the desire to be the best, the sacrifices that go into it, but also the abuses and dangers of giving up everything in the pursuit of a young girl's ... Read More
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