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1976 Olympic Winter Games Free Skate
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Dorothy Hamill (USA)
1976 Olympic Winter Games Free Skate
Susanna Driano (ITA)
1976 Olympic Winter Games Free Skate
Dianne de Leeuw (NED)
1976 Olympic Winter Games Free Skate
Людмила Пахомова/Александр Горшков Lyudmila Pakhomova/Aleksandr Gorshkov (USR)
1976 Olympic Winter Games Free Dance
The Princess Royal, Patron, Great Britain Olympians Association, attends a reunion of the 1976 Olympic Games, at the Lansdowne Club in London today, to celebrate 50 years since competing in the Montreal Olympic Games alongside fellow athletes from the 1976 Great Britain team.
📸 Aaron Chown
Nadia Comaneci being a bad-ass at 14 years old. And then there's me sitting on the couch watching the Olympics and eating ice-cream out of the tub.
Olympic Fever : Nadia Comaneci
This morning I was watching tv and suddenly Nadia Comaneci popped up on the screen carrying the Olympic Torch. Memories came flooding back of watching her with my father in Caracas back in the 70's. He was obsessed by her perfection... and perfect she was, the first gymnast in history to be given the perfect sore of 10.00 at the Montreal Olympics in 1976. At 14 years old Romanian Nadia went on to win seven perfect tens, three gold medals, one bronze, one silver.
Four years later at the 1980 Moscow Olympics, Comaneci earned two more gold medals and two silver to bring her Olympic total to nine medals--five gold, three silver and one bronze. In 1996, Comaneci was inducted into the International Gymnastics Hall of Fame.
Even though Nadia won a total of nine Olympic medals, five of them gold, she will always be remembered at the first gymnast to score a perfect 10 and leave her indelible mark on the history of the Olympics.
This is why I have dedicated this post to Nadia and to my late father..I wish had been an incredible gymnast like Nadia but she is was one of kind and an inspiration to all.
Let Games Begin, Happy Olympics London! xo
All photos sourced via Tumblr and Nadia Comaneci's website,
www.bartandnadia.com
www.tumblr.com/tagged/nadia-comaneci