Nadia Comaneci is regarded as one of the greatest gymnasts of all time and was awarded the first perfect 10 in gymnastics history at the 1976 Summer Games Romania's Ana Barbosu almost won her ...

Usain Bolt did it three times. Nadia Comaneci and Olga Korbut did it once apiece. Among those with a trio of gold from one Games: Jean-Claude Killy, Johann Olav Koss, Wilma Rudolph. These are ...

Ms. Comaneci and Belarusian gymnast Olga Korbut became household names ... At the 1976 Olympics in Montreal, Romanian Nadia Comaneci scored a perfect 10 on her uneven bars routine, and the ...

portraying real-life Russian Olympic gymnast Olga Korbut, who was unexpectedly upstaged by Nadia Comaneci of Romania at the 1976 Olympics. After hearing Chevy Chase describe her as "a crushed ...

Ms. Flanagan is the author of “Take Back the Game: How Money and Mania Are Ruining Kids’ Sports — and Why It Matters.” When the Olympics arrive and I hear the familiar kettle drums of the ...

Kerri Strug may not have won as many titles and World Championships as Simone Biles, Olga Korbut, or Nadia Comaneci. But she is still counted among the greatest gymnasts of all time. Having shown ...

There have been seminal figures in the sport of women’s gymnastics since they became an Olympic television obsession with Olga Korbut ... Soon after, there was Nadia Comaneci, and then Mary ...

Names like Olga Korbut, Nadia Comaneci, and Mary Lou Retton register as sports legends, and when I think of the Olympics, I think of gymnastics. Lots of us take this absolute spectacle of a sport ...

The 1976 Montreal Olympics was the year of a 14-year-old Romanian: Nadia Comaneci. The teen took the gymnastics floor by fire after brushing past veterans like Lyudmila Turishcheva and Olga Korbut ...

Gymnastics prodigy Olga Korbut competed in the Women's balance ... An iconic moment in Olympics history, Romanian gymnast Nadia Comaneci took home a gold medal in a retro white tracksuit during ...

She's catapulted past Olga Korbut, Nadia Comaneci, Gabby Douglas, Mary Lou Retton and any other gymnasts who has ever stood on the podium with a gold medal around her neck. Her impact, however ...