LONDON, July 25 (Reuters) – Wearing seven-inch black stilettos, skinny jeans and a black figure-hugging T-shirt declaring "I'm Gold", Nadia Comaneci was still turning heads in London 36 years after producing the defining image of Olympic gymnastics.
Nadia Comaneci (full name Nadia Elena Comaneci) was born on November 12, 1961 in Onesti, Romania Author: yline3.
Growing up, I was infatuated with Nadia Comaneci. I was born the year she captured the first perfect 10 in her event (1976). When Comaneci won, she was just 14 years old. Competing for Romania, she had no idea at the
One of my most abiding Olympic memories is of the Romanian gymnast Nadia Comaneci at the 1976 Montreal games. As I recall, there was a heatwave that summer, one that scorched its way across the US like a smoldering
LONDON — Nadia Comaneci shocked the world — and the scoreboard — when she scored the first perfect 10 in Olympic gymnastics as a pony-tailed 14-year-old in 1976. Now 50, she wishes gymnastics still had the perfect 10 in its scoring.
