Nina Mandell, author of A Fraction of a Point: A Gymnastics Dynasty on the Line, speaks to Ideastream about the championship Brecksville-Broadview Heights Bees

“The title of the book is ‘A Fraction of a Point’ because that is often what the state title is decided by. The incredible thing about this streak is that every year the gymnasts have to show up and – even if it’s something where they’ve competed a thousand times over on floor, on beam, on bars, on vault – if they have a mental block, if they make a mistake, that could be the fractions of the points off of the team score which could results [sic] in them losing. So I think just how fragile this streak is every year to me makes it fascinating.”—Ideastream

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