This is what happens when two Olympic superstars meet for the first time. While Caitlyn Jenner took home gold in the decathalon at the 1976 games in Montreal, Romanian gymnast Nadia Comaneci received ...
A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. On July 18, 1976, at the Summer Olympics in Montreal, Nadia Comaneci of Romania became the first gymnast to receive a ...
It's a perfect choice for the Olympic Museum - as in a perfect 10.0. Gymnastics great Nadia Comaneci has donated the numbered bib she wore at the 1976 Montreal Games to the museum. The Romanian-born ...
LONDON (Reuters) - She was once the ponytailed Romanian teenager excited at the thought of owning coloured socks and eating bubble gum yet Nadia Comaneci went on to captivate the world by performing ...
Romanian gymnast Nadia Comăneci made history at the 1976 Olympics by earning the first-ever perfect score of “10” for her performance in the uneven bars competition. It is now legend that the ...
Former gymnastics champion Nadia Comaneci stated in a message, delivered on the occasion of the launch of the 'Nadia Year' at the headquarters of the Romanian Olympic and Sports Committee (COSR), that ...
AFP continues its look back at the history of the Olympics to pick out some of the legends that have lit up the Games. Romanian Nadia Comaneci executes her final jump ...
Legendary Romanian gymnast Nadia Comaneci was the first person to score a perfect 10 at the Olympics -- doing so seven times in Montreal in 1976. She spoke to RFE/RL about how she's backing her ...
He rose to fame leading the Romanian and U.S. Olympic teams. He was later caught up in scandals involving the abuse of young female gymnasts. By Alex Traub, Hank Sanders and Carla Correa In 2014, ...