After picking up the team all-round gold earlier in the week, she added another title with the individual award. Watching on was Nadia Comaneci – until Biles moved into action, the holder of the ...
Nadia Comaneci is a renowned Romanian gymnast who rose to fame at the 1976 Montreal Olympics. She was only 14 years old when she made history by scoring the first perfect 10 in Olympic gymnastics. She ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...