If the world remembers nothing else about Romanian gymnast Nadia Comaneci, it will be this: 10: a perfect score. It was the first the world had seen in gymnastics, and she received seven of them at the 1976 Summer Olympics. It was so incredible that the electronic board was not programmed for 10 a showed a simple 1…
Born in 1961 in Onesti, Moldova, Romania, Nadia Elena Comaneci started school in 1968, where she caught the attention of talent scouts for the Romanian National Junior Team. Scout Bela Karolyi saw her playing on the courtyard, pretending to be a gymnast with another child. "I knew I would never leave that school until I found those two little girls," he later said.
Nadia was accepted into the new Gymnastics High School, where she spent four hours a day in the gym and five in the classroom. In 1971 and 1972 she won all-around titles for her age group. She won first place in her first international competition in 1971 in Yugoslavia.
She arrived at the 1976 Olympics suffering from sciatica, which made strong movements of her legs painful. She was 14-year-old, 4'11" tall, barely 86 pounds. She had no hopes of taking home the gold. . But then she hit the uneven bars, scoring a perfect 10 -- a world first. She would score six more before the end of the Olympics and became an international media darling in the process.
She left Montreal with seven perfect 10s, three gold medals (uneven bars, balance beam, all-around), one silver medal (team) and one bronze (floor exercise). Four years later in Moscow, she grabbed two gold medals (balance beam and floor exercise) and two silver medals (all-around and team).
Later she became an international judge, and coach to the Romanian National Team. .In 1989 she defected to the United States. She is a US Citizen and introduced President Bush in 2002 to the crowd in Bucharest.
She is married to the US gymnast gold medalist Bart Conner and travels worldwide from her US home, as she is extremely popular worldwide. She is President of the Romanian Olympic Committee, inducted in the Gymnastic Hall of Fame and a recipient of the most prestigious sport awards like the Laureus Sport awards given by Prince Rainier in Monaco. She is very proud to be an active member of the world board of the Special Olympics committee.
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