Tuesday, July 31, 2012

Nadia Comaneci

  • LONDON (AP) -- Nadia Comaneci is hoping gymnastics reverts to the old style of scoring and again give competitors a chance at the perfect 10 that she made famous.
  • (YAHOO!)
  • LONDON -- Wearing seven-inch black stilettos, skinny jeans and a black figure-hugging T-shirt declaring Im Gold, Nadia Comaneci was still turning heads in London 36 years after producing the defining image of Olympic gymnastics.
  • (Calgary Herald)
  • One of my most abiding Olympic memories is of the Romanian gymnast Nadia Comaneci at the 1976 Montreal Games.
  • (huffingtonpost.co.uk)
  • London: Former Olympic gymnast Nadia Comaneci and ex-basketball star John Amaechi will carry take the Olympic flame as it begins a seven-day tour of London on Saturday.
  • (sports.ndtv.com)
  • Wieber was one of only four women in the completion to rack up more than 60 points on the day. Karolyi coached legend Nadia Comaneci to prominence in 1976 before training Mary Lou Retton, the first American to win an all-around gold in the Olympics.
  • (MLive.com)
  • Latynina has had 18 since 1964. The world might remember more the tiny dancers of the blossoming television age; Nadia Comaneci, Mary Lou Retton, Olga Korbut. But nobody, in her sport or any other, has owned more Olympic medals than she.
  • (USA Today)
  • Former Olympic gymnast Nadia Comaneci and ex-basketball star John Amaechi will carry the Olympic flame as it begins a seven-day tour of London on Saturday.
  • (YAHOO!)
  • LONDON: Olympics legend Nadia Comaneci held the 2012 torch aloft over London on Saturday as the flame began a seven-day tour of the host city that will culminate at the Games opening ceremony.
  • (Daily Times)
  • When a 14-year-old schoolgirl is told, Well done, full marks, the commendation is ordinarily contained within the four walls of a classroom. In the case of the Romanian Nadia Comaneci her excellence reverberated around the world.
  • (Daily Telegraph)

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