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A year after her famous accomplishment of becoming the first female gymnast to earn a perfect score in the Olympic games, a young Nadia Comăneci is interviewed. Having won three gold medals during the 1978 Summer Olympic games in Montreal at the age of 14, Comăneci is asked about her new found celebrity status as one of the most famous female athletes around. She also comments on the rumors that have spread about her gaining weight since the olympics, being sick, and even being injured in the 1977 Vrancea Earthquake that affected her home country of Romania. The interviewer also asks her about her shy personality and the possibility of passing on gymnastics to her children one day.

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A Young Gymnast and Superstar appeared first on Witnify.

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Nadia Comăneci, the first female gymnast to ever get a perfect score at the Olympics, is interviewed on how that experience affected her. Having achieved this feat at the age of 14 in the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Comăneci comments on how she got involved and interested in gymnastics.

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A 14-Year-Old’s Perfect Score appeared first on Witnify.