Posted on 07/18/2025 11:49:59 AM PDT by nickcarraway
On July 18, 1976, at the Summer Olympics in Montreal, Nadia Comaneci of Romania became the first gymnast to receive a perfect score of 10 from Olympic judges for her performance on the uneven bars and, moments later, the balance beam.
The perfect scores changed the gymnastics world. She would do it five more times in Montreal. The 14-year-old was the breakout star of the Games — sorry, Sugar Ray Leonard and Bruce Jenner — with three gold medals, followed by two more in 1980, all with her growling coach Bela Karolyi by her side. In all, she won 21 gold medals in world competitions.
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I once met Peggy Fleming without first realizing who she was.
Half-naked beach volleyball comes to mind.
Wasn’t Olga Kolbort the first gymnast to get a perfect 10 in all the exercises?
I don't think so. But she did do this, which if I remember correctly she got penalized because she took too long doing it. I may be wrong, though.
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