Nadia Comăneci – The First Gymnast To Achieve A “Perfect 10” At The Olympics

Larry Patton Published on February 18, 2018

History In The Making

Years later in an interview with Nadia, she confessed that she didn’t realize the impact of her perfect score. “I didn’t know I was making history when I got the 10.” She didn’t like looking at the scoreboard after performances, she preferred feeling her performance within herself.

History In The Making

Seeing Isn’t Believing

Béla Károlyi was really angry at first when he saw the scoreboard. He believed that Nadia had received a record low score of 1.00. “I said ‘holy cow, they deducted something over here, there is a deduction, there is a penalty,’ I was on my way to the jury, then I heard, ‘Ladies and gentlemen, first time in the history of the sport, a perfect 10 in the Olympic Games.'”