Chalked Up: Inside Elite Gymnastics’ Merciless Coaching, Overzealous Parents, Eating Disorders, and Elusive Olympic Dreams
Chalked Up: Inside Elite Gymnastics’ Merciless Coaching, Overzealous Parents, Eating Disorders, and Elusive Olympic Dreams
Amazing book about gymnastics and olympic dreams Chalked Up: Inside Elite Gymnastics’ Merciless Coaching, Overzealous Parents, Eating Disorders, and Elusive Olympic Dreams

Contents
: Chapter 1
I LEARNED TO TURN A CARTWHEEL WHEN I
was three… 7
: Chapter 2
IN THE FALL OF 1976, AFTER A SUMMER of
bicentennial… 17
: Chapter 3(Chalked Up: Inside Elite Gymnastics’ Merciless Coaching, Overzealous Parents, Eating Disorders, and Elusive Olympic Dreams)
AND THEN IT HAPPENED: I WAS INVITED to join the… 21
: Chapter 4
I LOVED PERFORMING. AND ONE OF the perks of being…30
: Chapter 5
I WAS MATURING AS A COMPETITOR. The developing
ability to… 39
: Chapter 6
MY SUCCESS AT 1979 CLASS ONE REGIONALS
couldn’t be solely… 50
: Chapter 7
QUALIFYING FOR SECTIONALS WAS A turning point.
I alternately daydreamed… 58
Part II 67
Part I 1
Foreword viii
1980–1984 71
: Chapter 8 (Chalked Up: Inside Elite Gymnastics’ Merciless Coaching, Overzealous Parents, Eating Disorders, and Elusive Olympic Dreams)
I WAS TEN YEARS OLD WHEN I BEGAN to inflict… 73
: Chapter 9
THERE WAS AN OLYMPIC BUZZ IN the air. The U.S.… 83
: Chapter 10
IT WAS TIME. THE SUMMER OF 1981, and I was… 93
: Chapter 11
ON A GOOD DAY, WHEN INJURIES didn’t rankle,
being in… 99
(Chalked Up: Inside Elite Gymnastics’ Merciless Coaching, Overzealous Parents, Eating Disorders, and Elusive Olympic Dreams)
: Chapter 12
I WAS OFFICIALLY A MEMBER OF THE 1981 U.S.
National… 107
: Chapter 13
IN 1982 MY GOAL WAS TO BREAK into the top… 118
: Chapter 14
DESPITE MY DISAPPOINTMENT after 1982
championships, I was honored with… 124
: (Chalked Up: Inside Elite Gymnastics’ Merciless Coaching, Overzealous Parents, Eating Disorders, and Elusive Olympic Dreams)Chapter 15
IN 1984, I MISSED THE ENTIRE competition season.
My first… 134
: Chapter 16
“LET’S TRY PARKETTES,” I OFFERED one day on
the way… 142
Photographic Insert
1985–1989 163
: Chapter 17
I LOST WEIGHT RIGHT AWAY AT Parkettes. The
training sessions… 165
: Chapter 18 (Chalked Up: Inside Elite Gymnastics’ Merciless Coaching, Overzealous Parents, Eating Disorders, and Elusive Olympic Dreams)
I WAS NEARLY SIXTEEN YEARS OLD and an
unknown on… 175
: Chapter 19
THE NEXT FEW MONTHS OF TRAINING were merciless.
Gymnastics is… 192
: Chapter 20
I WAS RANKED SEVENTH IN THE United States. It was… 199
: Chapter 21
WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS TRAINING camp was
held at Parkettes in October… 211
: Chapter 22(Chalked Up: Inside Elite Gymnastics’ Merciless Coaching, Overzealous Parents, Eating Disorders, and Elusive Olympic Dreams)
I ARRIVED HOME FROM MONTREAL in November
after staying to… 225
: Chapter 23
MY GOAL AT 1986 U.S. CHAMPIONSHIPS: make the
top eight… 235
: Chapter 24
I SIGNED HUNDREDS OF AUTOGRAPHS while
sitting with my foot… 244
: (Chalked Up: Inside Elite Gymnastics’ Merciless Coaching, Overzealous Parents, Eating Disorders, and Elusive Olympic Dreams)Chapter 25
A FEW THINGS BRIGHTENED MY mood, albeit
briefly, during the… 250
Part III 157
: Chapter 26
I’D EARNED A SPOT ON BOTH THE Pan American and… 266
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