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RIO DE JANEIRO -- For beating Allyson Felix, Shaunae Miller gets a gold medal. Maybe they should give her a cape, too.It took a head-first dive, Superwoman style, for Miller to spring an Olympic upset Monday over Americas top female sprinter in the 400 meters and deny her a record fifth gold medal.Miller, a 22-year-old from the Bahamas, took an early lead, then held off Felixs charge along the straightaway. Neck and neck with two steps to go, Miller sprawled and tumbled across the line to win by .07 seconds.Now, instead of a coronation for Felix, its a celebration for Miller, who finished second to the American at last years world championships. Her dive will go down as one of the most dramatic images weve seen at these, or any, Olympics.Not that she planned it that way.I dont know what happened. My mind just went blank, Miller said. The only thing I was thinking [about] was the gold medal, and the next thing I know, I was on the ground.As Miller, who formerly competed for University of Georgia, lay on her back, gasping for breath and maybe stunned at what shed done, Felix sat on the ground stone-faced. Ten seconds passed. Then 20.The winners first clue came from the stands, not the scoreboard, which showed Miller winning in 49.44 seconds, ahead of Felix and bronze medalist Shericka Jackson of Jamaica.A familiar voice cut through the air.I heard my mom screaming, Miller said. When I heard her screaming, I was like, OK, I had to have won the race. Starting from Lane 7, Miller expanded the lag, instead of getting gobbled up the way most women do when Felix is on the track.Stride for stride they ran down the last 100 meters, until the last few steps. Felix, classically trained by Bobby Kersee, made a textbook lean into the finish line. Miller tried something else. Something no coach would ever teach.She gave everything she had, and her legs gave out at the line, said Millers coach, Lance Brauman, who also works with 100-meter silver medalist Tori Bowie of the U.S. Was not intentional.Then again, amazing things happen with a gold medal at stake.While Miller jumped with her arms flailing forward, the rules say the win is determined by which athlete has any part of her torso cross the line first. The photo finish showed Millers shoulder barely beat Felix to the line.I dont think I ever quite had a year this tough, Felix said, as her eyes welled with tears.She was one of those rare athletes who had the cachet to get the Olympics to change the schedule. After winning the world championship at 400 meters last year, she put the 200-400 double in her sights for the Olympics. The schedule as it was originally written made it impossible; the 200 heats were scheduled for the same evening as the 400 final.Felix asked, and she received: The 200 heats were moved to the morning to give Americas best female sprinter a chance for the twofer.But she never got to the starting line in the 200 because an injury derailed her training and she came up short at Olympic trials.The 400 was her only chance for individual gold. Instead, she got silver to go with the pair she won in 2004 and 2008 in the 200.Even so, Felix became the most decorated U.S. female track athlete, with seven overall medals.But this was Millers night.The flag-bearer for her country in the opening ceremonies, Miller came into the games 5-for-5 in her races this season, including Diamond League meets in Shanghai, Eugene and London.Now shes 6-for-6.A wild finish to a crazy night.It began with a downpour that stopped action in all the events and put the DJ to work, playing Singing In The Rain, Umbrella and I Cant Stand the Rain, among other fare, while the fans waited out the delay.Those who stayed got their moneys worth.Miller ended up with a few scrapes and bruises.My body is kind of numb, she said. Its all just burning right now.The pain will go away. That gold is hers forever.The Associated Press contributed to this report. Dikembe Mutombo Jersey . He just needed to be his best twisting, turning acrobatic self. 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Yet something seemed to get lost even as gymnasts like American Simone Biles -- heavily favored to win the all-around title on Thursday night -- pushed the sport to unprecedented heights.The scores Biles puts up are astounding. Its just that the 16s that Biles regularly posts on vault -- a level her peers seldom match -- dont translate. Yes, theyre awesome. Theyre just not perfect. And 28 years after the last 10 in Olympic gymnastics, Comaneci wonders if that needs to change.I think it would be nice to see something that everybody can understand, said Comaneci, who posted seven 10s in Montreal. We are gymnastic family and we kind of know whats going on but everybody who loves gym and kids who are new to sport and they are fans, they dont quite understand the changes in the sport.The new system divided scoring into two parts. One -- the `D score -- is based on what you do. The other -- the `E score -- is how well you do it. Gymnasts build their `D score throughout the routine by connecting one element to the other. The more connections, the higher the score. Yet the more you do, the more likely you are to get sideways at some point, dropping your execution score.A little complicated, right? At the elite level, a good `D score starts at 5.0 and can reach 7.0. The `E score is set on a 10.0 format. Technically perfection is attainable. Its just that no routine has been awarded a 10.0 since the new system was introduced.The closest the sport gets these days is Biles on vault, where her Amanar -- a round off onto the block followed by 2 1/2 twists -- is unequaled. During U.S. Championships last spring, she landed it dead center of the mat with an almost imperceptible hop. The judges gave her a 16.3, including a 9.9 for execution.What exactly was the problem? Well, U.S. national team coordinator Martha Karolyi has a theory.Guts, Karolyi said with a laugh. Perfection is really very hard but I think on the other hand that the FIG a little bit intimidates the judges and educates them in a style that they are afraid to give higher scores.Biles wont quite go that far. Asked if she remembers where she might have erred and she shrugged her shoulders and laughed.My toes might have been crossed maybe, she said, her tone making it sound more like a guess than a fact.Longtime judge Kittia Carpenter was on the floor that afternoon in Indianapolis while serving as then coach for defending Olympic champion Gabby Douglas. She watched Bilees soar.dddddddddddd Was it worthy of a 10? Carpenter thinks it was as close as shes seen. Seeing it, however, and writing it down on a card is another matter.It is kind of in our minds as a judge that there must be something in there that I didnt quite catch, Carpenter said. And you think that I couldnt possibly give a 10 or the whole world will come yell at the US.Nellie Kim, a five-time gold medalist for the Soviet Union and the president of the FIGs womens artistic gymnastics technical committee, insists there is no mandate to keep judges from giving out a 10. Shes also not about to apologize for making it near impossible. In the end, its a subjective sport. At last falls world championships, Kim likened gymnastics to a piece of art. What one person sees as beautiful, the other might not.Gymnastics is not the only judged Olympic sport where the notion of perfect is rare. Its much the same in diving and figure skating, leaving the athletes to create an inner scoreboard of their own. They know when theyve maxed out, even if the scores dont reflect it.I think you know it when it happens, American diver David Boudia said. You know when you hit a dive because everything feels fluid.The FIG created the new code to help continue to push gymnastics forward.Youre always striving for something more, said four-time Olympic medalist Shawn Johnson. Before, if you hit it (perfect marks), there was nowhere else to go. Now it is endless.Maybe too endless. Germanys Fabian Hambuechen took the code to task after Frances Samir Ait Said broke his left leg while vaulting during Olympic qualifying on Saturday for putting the focus on risk-taking rather than precision.It was like everyone had the chance to get the high score of 10.0 with different ways, said Hambuechen, a four-time Olympian. Now everyone knows if you want to have a high D score you have to do these skills and these skills are sometimes too dangerous for some people.Theres another factor at play too: the 10 is relatable and marketable. A nice, firm round number, one that Comaneci made synonymous with greatness. They are still given out in the U.S. at the NCAA level and send a jolt through the arena and the athletes when they pop up.We took away the most iconic symbol of our sport, said UCLA womens coach Valorie Kondos Field. It would be like taking away the Hail Mary when its caught in the end zone. If youre a gymnastics fan and you see a 10, you talk about it the rest of your life.Biles plans to put on a show Thursday night as she bids to become the fourth straight American to win the Olympic all-around title. She doesnt think too much about creating a historic moment by getting an ever-elusive score. Besides, even if she did, it might only generate more debate.Someone out there will say `Simones vault isnt perfect, Biles said. If Im happy with it, thats what I think matters the most.---AP Sports Writer Beth Harris in Rio de Janeiro and Sports Writer Mike Marot in Indianapolis contributed to this report. ' ' '