Perfect 10!
Daily prompt: Ten
Nadia Elena Comăneci is a Romanian former gymnast who, at the age of 14, became the first gymnast in Olympic history to be awarded the perfect score of 10.0 at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal.
On 18 July 1976, Nadia Comăneci performed in the uneven bars event, and was awarded a score of 10. Because the scoreboard only allowed three digits, it had to display her score as 1.00. This led to total confusion, even Comăneci was unsure of what it meant, until the announcer informed the elated crowd that she had scored a perfect ten (10). Comăneci scored a total of seven 10s at the 1976 Olympics – four on the uneven bars and three on the Balance beam.
The emergence of Comăneci at the Olympic Games in Montreal in 1976 took the world by storm and pushed the boundaries of expectation in the realms of human achievement.
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She was so cute and personable. I always looked forward to watching her. My girls and I must have watched every TV event with her in it. Big fans!
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Years later, we saw her in Las Vegas sitting with a group. Perhaps she had a presentation or training.
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That was a great article and a wonderful moment in history. I hope all is well! You’ve been tagged! Find the article here: https://thepurplealmond.com/2017/01/26/ive-been-tagged/
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Thank you very much!!
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Its incredible how the country behind the “iron curtain” produced such fine gymnasts!
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Yes, several years ago for summer olympics – one pair of couple who did figure skating were Chinese husband and wife. They slept in different dorms for training for 15 years. They got silver, I think! During Russia’s dark hours, tchaikovsky produced symphony #6 in b minor, Sleeping Beauty, Nutcracker… They spared the artists.
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I remember reading about her several years ago. What struck me and inspired me the most was that she used to practice for 14 to 16 hours every day! (That was what the article said). If it’s true, then she’s truly inspirational!
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Yes, I watched the movie with my daughter. It portraits the training dorm as strict, supervised by an alert dorm “mom.” They were under extreme diet, so the girls sneaked out to the kitchen at night to steal food to eat under the bed cover. The “mom” came right way to snap all the food. I love watching gymnastic because of her. Her hard work paid off. That is inspiration to me also!
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Wow..They sure had a tough life! I’d love to watch that movie😊
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I’m trying to find it also. I recorded it with VHS, we don’t have VHS machine any more.
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Oh..
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I remember here ‘perfect’ performance, and watched it on T.V. at the time.
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Yes, even when I did the research for this post, I loved watching all the Youtube videos of her. I watcher the movie made long time ago.
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Many still refer to this period (before her coaches defected) as the glory days here in Romania.
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Oh you’re in Romania!!!!! Yes, my research refers her as the forever icon!
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That was very exciting to see.
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It was made into a movie and I watched it with my daughter when she started gymnastic!
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