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Unfortunately, her parents divorced in the 1960s. She served in the capacity of an observer not a judge , and she was able to watch Bela Károlyi's new protégé, American gymnast , dominate the Olympics. Her first was the Romanian National Junior Championships.

The first person to score a perfect 10 at the Olympic Games was Romanian , at the in Montreal. She first lived with Stefu. However, now Nadia had a reputation to upkeep.



Nadia Elena Comăneci Romanian pronunciation: ; born 12 November 1961 is a Romanian retired gymnast and a five-time Olympic gold medalist, all in individual events. Comăneci is the first gymnast to be awarded a at the Olympic Games, and then, at the same Games in , she received six more perfect 10s en route to winning three. At the in , she won two more gold medals and attained two more perfect 10s. During her career, Comăneci won nine Olympic medals and four medals. Nadia Comăneci Nadia Comăneci at the Personal information Full name Nadia Elena Comăneci Nickname s Nana Country represented Born 1961-11-12 12 November 1961 age 56 , Romania Height 5 ft 4 in 1. In 2000, she was named as one of the Athletes of the 20th Century by the. She has lived in the United States since 1989 and is married to American Olympic gold medal gymnast. Comăneci was born to Gheorghe 1936—2012 and Ștefania Comăneci, and has a younger brother. Her parents separated in the 1970s, and her father later moved to Bucharest. She and her younger brother Adrian were raised in the faith of the. In a 2011 interview, Nadia's mother Ștefania said that she enrolled her daughter into gymnastics classes simply because she was a child who was so full of energy and active that she was difficult to manage. Comăneci graduated from with a degree in that gave her the qualifications to coach gymnastics. At age 6, she was chosen to attend 's experimental gymnastics school after Károlyi spotted a friend and her turning in a schoolyard. Károlyi was looking for gymnasts he could train from a young age and saw the two girls during recess. When recess ended, the girls ran inside. Károlyi went around the classrooms trying to find them, and eventually spotted Comăneci. The other girl, Viorica Dumitru, went on to be one of Romania's top. Comăneci was training with Károlyi by the time she was seven years old, in 1968. She was one of the first students at the gymnastics school established in Onești by Béla and his wife,. Unlike many of the other students at the Károlyi school, Comăneci was able to commute from home for many years because she lived in the town. In 1970, she began competing as a member of her hometown team and became the youngest gymnast ever to win the Romanian Nationals. In 1971, she participated in her first international competition, a dual junior meet between Romania and , winning her first title and contributing to the team. For the next few years, she competed as a junior in numerous national contests in Romania and dual meets with countries such as , , and. At the age of 11, in 1973, she won the all-around gold, as well as the and titles, at the Junior Friendship Tournament Druzhba , an important international meet for junior gymnasts. Comăneci's first major international success came at the age of 13, when she nearly swept the 1975 in , , winning the all-around and gold medals on every event but the , in which she placed second. In the pre-Olympic test event in , Comăneci won the all-around and the balance beam golds, as well as in the vault, floor, and bars behind accomplished , who was one of her greatest rivals over the next five years. Comăneci wearing her medals In March 1976, Comăneci competed in the inaugural edition of the at in Manhattan. She received rare scores of 10, which signified a perfect routine without any deductions, for her vault in the preliminary stage and for her floor exercise routine in the final of the all-around competition which she went on to win. During this event, Comăneci first met American gymnast. While he remembered this meeting, Comăneci noted in her memoirs that she had to be reminded of it later in life. She was 14 and Conner was celebrating his 18th birthday. They both won a silver cup and were photographed together. A few months later, they participated in the that Comăneci dominated while Conner was a marginal figure. The apparatus demands such a spectacular burst of energy in such a short time—only 23 seconds—that it attracts the most fanfare. But it is on the beam that her work seems more representative of her unbelievable skill. She scored three of her seven 10s on the beam. Her hands speak there as much as her body. Her pace magnifies her balance. Her command and distance hush the crowd. Comăneci in 1976 On 18 July 1976, Comăneci made history at the Montreal Olympics. During the team compulsory portion of the competition, she was awarded the first for her routine on the. However, —the traditional Olympics scoreboard manufacturer— was led to believe that it was impossible to receive a perfect ten, thus the scoreboard was not programmed to display that score. During the remainder of the Montreal Games, Comăneci earned six additional tens. She won gold medals for , and. She also won a bronze for the and a silver as part of the. Comăneci also took over the spotlight from , who had been the darling of the 1972 Munich Games. Comăneci's achievements are pictured in the entrance area of Madison Square Garden in Manhattan, where she is shown presenting her perfect beam exercise. Comăneci doing the floor exercise at the 1976 Olympics Comăneci was the first Romanian gymnast to win the Olympic all-around title. She also holds the record for being the youngest Olympic gymnastics all-around champion ever. The sport has now revised its age-eligibility requirements. Gymnasts must now turn 16 in the same calendar year of the Olympics to compete during the Games. When Comăneci competed in 1976, gymnasts had to be 14 by the first day of the competition. It is not currently possible to legally break this record. Back home in Romania, Comăneci was awarded the Gold Medal for her success, and she was named a. She was the youngest Romanian to receive such recognition during the administration of. It was also used as the title theme music for the American soap opera. Comăneci successfully defended her European all-around title in 1977, but when questions were raised about the scoring, Ceaușescu ordered the Romanian gymnasts to return home. The team followed orders amid controversy and walked out of the competition during the event finals. Following the 1977 Europeans, the Romanian Gymnastics Federation removed Comăneci from her longtime coaches, the Károlyis, and sent her to on August 23 to train at the sports complex. The change was not positive for Comăneci. She was extremely unhappy; her gymnastics skills suffered, and she attempted suicide by drinking bleach. A fall from the uneven bars resulted in a fourth-place finish in the all-around behind Soviets , , and. Comăneci did win the world title on beam, and a silver on vault. In 1979, Comăneci won her third consecutive European all-around title, becoming the first gymnast, male or female, to achieve this feat. At the in that December, Comăneci led the field after the compulsory competition, but was hospitalized before the optional portion of the team competition for blood poisoning caused by a cut in her wrist from her metal grip buckle. Against doctors' orders, she left the hospital and competed on the beam, where she scored a 9. Her performance helped give the Romanians their first team gold medal. After her performance, Comăneci spent several days recovering in All Saints Hospital and underwent a minor surgical procedure for the infected hand, which had developed an. Comăneci in Moscow, 1980 Comăneci was chosen to participate in the in , a city that was part of the at that time. As a result of the , declared that the United States would several other countries also participated in the boycott, though the reasons varied. She also won two silver medals, one for and one for. Controversies arose concerning the scoring in the all-around and floor exercise competitions. Her coach, Bela Károlyi, protested that she was scored unfairly. His protests were captured on television, however, causing him to fall out of favor with members of the Romanian government, who felt that he had humiliated them. Life thus became very difficult for Károlyi from that point forward. During this tour, Comăneci's team shared a bus trip with American gymnasts, thus allowing her to meet Bart Conner for the third time—they had previously met at the American Cup and Montreal Games, both in 1976. He bounced around the bus talking to everyone—he was incredibly friendly and fun. Prior to defecting, Károlyi hinted a few times to Comăneci that he might attempt to do so and indirectly asked if she wanted to join him. At that time, she had no interest in defecting and said she wanted to go home to Romania. However, after the defection of the Károlyis, life changed drastically for Comăneci in ways she could not have predicted. Officials feared that she would also defect, and her actions were strictly monitored; she was no longer allowed to travel outside of Romania. Although a number of Communist nations had in to the U. Comăneci later wrote in her memoir that many believed Romania went to the Olympics because an agreement had been made with the United States not to accept defectors. However, Comăneci did not participate in the Games as a member of the Romanian team. She served in the capacity of an observer not a judge , and she was able to watch Bela Károlyi's new protégé, American gymnast , dominate the Olympics. However, she was not allowed to speak with Károlyi and was closely watched the entire time. Defection Aside from the 1984 Olympics and a few select trips to Moscow and Cuba, the government prevented Comăneci from leaving Romania. She had started thinking about retiring a few years earlier, and her official retirement ceremony took place in Bucharest in 1984, and was attended by the chairman of the. She later wrote in her memoir: Life took on a new bleakness. I was cut off from making the small amount of extra money that had really made a difference in my family's life. I started to feel like a prisoner. Five years later, on the night of 27 November 1989, and a few weeks before the , which she had no idea was about to happen, Comăneci defected with a group of other Romanians. They were all guided by Constantin Panait, a Romanian who was now an after defecting, and whom Comăneci had met at a party given by one of her friends. In the years since Béla Károlyi's defection to the United States, she had changed her mind on the subject until she met a number of Romanians at the party who talked about it. There were six other Romanians who planned to trust him with their lives. Once it began, their dangerous overland journey mostly on foot and at night took her through Hungary, Austria, and finally to the United States. I never questioned him. I assumed that his wife knew that he was going to help a handful of Romanians get out of the country and that I was one of them. But what people took from my answer was that I was a home-wrecker. Nothing could have been further from the truth. In hindsight, I understand that I'd made a very poor choice of words. Constantin had plans to become my personal manager upon our arrival in the United States. I didn't know that, but he promised to help me get settled, and I guess I just accepted his involvement in my future career as fair payment for the risks he'd taken. People died every day trying to defect. They tried to contact me by telephone, but Constantin did not relay their messages. As he had worked for NBC Sports as a host during the previous Olympics, he knew the producer Michael Weisman who had since moved to CBS and contacted him to inquire about Comăneci's upcoming interview. Weisman was thus able to arrange for Conner to make a guest appearance on the show if he could be in Los Angeles by taping at 5 pm. After appearing on the show with Comăneci and Panait, Conner met with Comăneci in the , later saying of the meeting: I think I can understand why Nadia said what she did... She said, 'He Panit is my manager. We don't have a relationship, so it doesn't matter if he's married or not. She regrets it, and I don't think she realized how misunderstood she would be. She really got burned. She said the Miami media was really not nice to her. For a second, I was tempted to ask for help... I needed to move on and find a better life for myself. Bart told me later that he tried to call me after the show, but Constantin never let me know of his calls. It was based on his desire to help a young woman he'd met once who was an icon in our shared sport. Comăneci noted in her memoir that after they arrived in Montreal, and when he finally had an opportunity to get me alone, Alexandru asked what was next for me. I never heard from him again, but I hope he is well and thank him for his help. I realize that our business relationship may have tarnished my name and image, but I safely escaped from Romania, and that is truly what was most important. Comăneci and her husband meeting First Lady , 2009 In the spring of 1990, Conner traveled to Montreal to see her once again, this time to interview her for. A few months later, Stefu surprised Comăneci by inviting Conner to her 29th birthday party, after which they developed a long-distance friendship for a few years. In 1991 after Stefu died in a scuba diving accident , Comăneci moved to Oklahoma to help Conner with his school. She lived with 's family, eventually hiring him as her manager. Comăneci and Conner were initially just friends, and they were together for four years before they became engaged. Their 1996 wedding was held in Bucharest. It was televised live throughout Romania, and their reception was held in the former presidential palace. Comăneci later described the experience as very emotional, not just seeing my mother, but seeing an entire country I'd left. When I got married in Bucharest, there were 10,000 people on the street. People didn't go to work that day. It was emotional to see how people care about you. Ten years after getting married, Conner and Comăneci had a son, Dylan. Comăneci is a of both Romania and the United States she became a in 2001. She was later the featured speaker at the 50th annual Naturalization Ceremony on July 4, 2012, at Virginia , the first athlete to speak in the history of the ceremony. Comăneci at the , April 2012 Comăneci is a well-known figure in the world of gymnastics; she serves as the honorary president of the Romanian Gymnastics Federation, the honorary president of the Romanian Olympic Committee, the sports ambassador of Romania, and as a member of the International Gymnastics Federation Foundation. She and Conner own the Bart Conner Gymnastics Academy, the Perfect 10 Production Company, and several sports equipment shops, and are the editors of. She is also still involved with the Olympic Games. During the in , one of her perfect-10 Montreal uneven bars routines was featured in a commercial for. In addition, both Comăneci and her husband Bart Conner provided television commentary for the in. A few years later, on July 21, 2012, Comăneci, along with former basketball star , carried the Olympic torch to the roof of the as part of the torch relay for the in. She also offered daily analysis of the 2016 games along with other Olympic champions such as , , and Conner , for the late-night show É Campeão, broadcast on Brazil's. In addition, Comăneci is highly involved in fundraising for a number of charities. She personally funded the construction and operation of the Nadia Comăneci Children's Clinic in that provides low-cost and free medical and social support to Romanian children. In 2003, the Romanian government appointed her as an honorary consul general of Romania to the United States to deal with bilateral. In addition, both Comăneci and Conner are involved with the. One of the public methods Comăneci used to raise funds for the Special Olympics in 2008 was to participate in 's ,. 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Barbara Fisher and Jennifer Isbister, 2003, Gymnastics Greats. In 1971, she met in her first international competition — a dual junior meet between Romania and Yugoslavia. Retrieved May 6, 2011. A Scoring Discrepancy Cause Disruption There was a lot of controversy that surrounded the 1980 Moscow Olympics. For a second, I was tempted to ask for help. Archived from PDF on Social 8, 2010. It is easy to see why the IOC considered 10. You know what I mean. Retrieved August 19, 2016. However, at the time Nadia had no interest in defecting.