Great Women in History - Nadia Comaneci
In Virtual Variety, we love to tell those forgotten stories, to talk about those great characters that changed the world, characters that with their great deeds were immortalized in the course of time. A new section is born, dedicated especially to those incredible women, who decided to go against any obstacles that came their way, and managed to achieve their greatest dreams, women who today are to be admired and respected.
On July 18, 1976, in Montreal, Canada, the "Montreal Olympic Games" took place. That day a young Romanian girl, only 14 years old, managed to captivate all the people who were in that place and those who watched the event on TV, with her tender smile, showed that age is not a limit to achieve what we want, she managed to make history by getting a 10 "Top Score" in an exercise of artistic gymnastics in one of the Olympic Games, from that day nobody would forget her name Nadia Comaneci, a legend of the sport. And we suppose you are wondering.
Who is Nadia Comaneci?
This talented young girl was born in Romania in 1961, in a town called Oneste, from a very young age she began to show talent in the sport of Artistic Gymnastics, her name means Hope in the town where she was born, she was only 6 years old, she was recruited to belong to the Artistic Gymnastics team, by the coach Béla Károly. With only 19 years old, this young coach had many goals ahead, so the training was quite hard, and very demanding, Karoly's girlfriend was also a coach of the team, as they say, when Nadia was asked to perform five routines on the bar, she made sevens, really incredible true? But a question arises.
What were the competitions or championships where Nadia participated?
In 1974 the young Comaneci began to participate in major competitions to demonstrate her skills, with only 13 years old she had an incredible success in the European Gymnastics Championship, in which she managed to win three gold medals and one silver medal. After that remarkable success, in 1975 the "Montreal Pre-Olympic Competitions" began, where she managed to overcome the Soviet Pentacampeona, with four individual victories, because of this achievement, she was in first position in the rankings, but not only did she get that victory in that year, she was also chosen as the Associated Press Athlete of the Year.
The real recognition came on July 18, 1976, when she managed to win the "America's Cup" in New York, becoming the first woman to perform a double back somersault at the start of an asymmetric exercise. Her triumph was so spectacular that when she showed her results only a "1.00" was displayed, something that confused Nadia, because she could not understand what she did wrong, if the public was euphoric for what they had seen, but the scoreboard showed such low results, but then a megaphone clarified the results, and it was the highest score, "10", only that no one had achieved that score.
Since then, Nadia Comaneci was known and admired by the whole world, without thinking and imagining it, she managed to win her first Olympic gold, this girl, prodigy of gymnastics got seven top scores out of 10, something incredible to see in the history of gymnastics, reading about her life, about her achievements, perseverance and dedication, we understand why she was so successful, and why she managed to be the best, The following years were also fruitful for her as a professional gymnast. Despite the fact that so many years have passed, today Nadia Comaneci continues to captivate everyone who knows her story.
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This text was translated from Spanish to English thanks to the translator Deepl.
