On this day in 1976 at the Montreal Olympic games Nadia Comaneci, a 14-year-old Romanian gymnast became the first to ever score a 10.0 for a performance. She did it on the uneven bars. When the score came up there was confusion- the scoreboard read 1.00. They had never thought anyone would ever get a 10.0 so they weren’t prepared for such an event. Nadia would eventually make getting a 10.0 routine. She would have 6 10’s in those games on her way to 3 gold medals. She was one of biggest stars of that olympic games. She would go on to win 2 more gold medals at the Moscow Games in 1980 [which we didn’t see here in the US because the decision of a bone-headed president to boycott those games.} She retired from competition in 1981.
Nadia Comaneci is now a naturalized citizen of the United States and married to former U.S. gymnast Bart Conner. They had their first child in 2006.
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*sarcasm on* who was that bone headed president? why i bet it was your best friend jimmy wasnt it. man that guy was just everywhere. no wonder you and he are such friends.
just trying to keep my streak alive..3 or 4 days in a row now of insulting the worst president of the 20th century…
i do not remember a lot about the 76 games. i do remember nadia, and i do remember bruce kardashian errr i mean jenner winning the decathlon. other than that not much.
I was 15 then- and watched every televised moment of the games. of course you didn’t get non stop coverage like you do today.. i wish i had been around to have seen the 60 games in rome…
I didn’t know she married Bart Connor. (And would you lay off Carter? Please?)
I remembered she married some american gymnastic..and i will lay off of carter.. all in good fun..he’s not the worst president of the 20th century…hoover..
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can guarantee that carter will always have the wood put to him on this blog. but its all in good fun
yes.. you know what i do in bookstores.. you always find carters books in the bargain section.. i always turn them the other way or put another book in front of them… my little..getting back at carter for the 70s