Dvora Meyers

The Greatest Clusterfuck In Women’s Gymnastics History, Two Decades Later

When 16-year-old Allana Slater stood at the end of the vault runway before her timer warm-up during the third rotation of the 2000 Olympics women’s all-around final in Sydney, she almost immediately knew that something was off. “I was looking at it and thinking, ‘That looks wrong. That looks low.’” The Australian gymnast recalled saying…