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Nadia Comaneci
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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…
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Nadia Comaneci is a Romanian gymnast, winner of five Olympic gold medals, and the first to be awarded a perfect score of 10 in an Olympic gymnastic event. She is one of the most well-known gymnasts in the world and has helped popularize the sport around the world. She retired from competition in 1981.
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At the age of 14, Romanian gymnast Nadia Comaneci became an international sensation after her performance at Montreal's 1976 Olympics. She earned seven perfect scores and five medals, including three golds, and was the first gymnast to ever earn a perfect score in Olympic competition. Comaneci went on to compete in the 1980 Moscow games and brought her lifetime medal total to five golds, three silvers and one bronze. She retired from competition in 1984 and became a judge and the coach of the Romanian national team. In 1989 Comaneci fled Romania and was granted political asylum in the United States. She settled in Norman, Oklahoma and married U.S. gymnast Bart Connor in 1996.
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Celebrated Romanian gymnast Nadia Comaneci arrived in Taiwan yesterday for a five-day visit to give lectures and training to local athletes. Comaneci, an unforgettable figure in the history of the Olympic Games, scored the first "perfect 10" on the parallel bars in 1976 at Montreal, which was ... the first full-point performance on record at the world's most prominent sporting event. While in Taipei, Comaneci will visit the National Palace Museum and exchange experience with coaches and athletes from northern Taiwan at National Taiwan Normal University. She will then travel to Tsoying national training center in southern Kaohsiung and is expected to stage an exhibition for the Chinese Taipei team that will take part in the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens.
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Nadia Comaneci was born in Romania on November 12, 1961. Her coach was Bela Karolyi who ... is the coach of Mary Lou and Dominique Moceanu (also of Romanian origin). He trained her when she was six years old, aiming at Olympic gold.
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Joining a symbol of American capitalism in an entertainment venture is a long way from the Romania of Comaneci's youth. Comaneci grew up under the Communist dictatorship of Nicolae Ceausescu, who was overthrown in a 1989 revolution amid the fall of the Iron Curtain. Ceausescu was sentenced to death on Christmas Day 1989 and was executed.
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