Musica de diana comaneci biography
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Gymnastics is an individual sport. When a gymnast salutes the judges, she is out there alone. Sure, she might have teammates who are cheering for her, a supportive coach backing her up, family up in the stands rooting for her. But in the literal sense, she performs her routines alone.
But it wasn’t always like this, at least not on the floor exercise. Up until the late s, when a gymnast stepped out onto the mat, she wasn’t alone: there was another person performing with her, perhaps out of the spotlight, but part of the performance nonetheless.
I’m talking about the pianist.
Here’s a commentator talking about the Soviet pianist before all-around champion Ludmilla Tourischeva started her floor routine during the event finals at the Olympics in Munich: “An important peripheral person in all of these competitions is the accompanist. Each team brings their own and the performance and the music must be perfectly joined together.”
For many gymnasts, their connection to their pia
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Nadia Comaneci
Nadia Comaneci was born on November 12, , in Romania. She started practicing gymnastics since she was a little girl. She began competing nationally, in as a member of her hometown team.
At the age of 13 Nadia won three gold medals and one silver at the European Gymnastics Championships. A year later, in , she finished first in Montreal's pre-Olympics.
All these achievements were only the first step to what would happen the following year, , in the Montreal Olympic Games. She was the first gymnast to score perfect 10 in Olympic Games ever. She won 3 gold medals and one silver.
Nadia withdrew from high competition after this Olympic Games. Her last appearance in a major tournament was in the World University Championship which was held in Bucharest in , where she won 5 gold medals. She was a member of the Romanian Gymnastics Federation and trained youngsters in her country between an
In she escaped to the United States, where she me
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Nadia Comăneci
Romanian gymnast (born )
Nadia Elena Comăneci Conner[a] (née&#;Comăneci; born November 12, ) is a Romanian retired gymnast. She is a five-time Olympic gold medalist, all in individual events. In , at the age of 14, Comăneci was the first gymnast to be awarded a perfect score of at the Olympic Games.[5] At the same Games ( Summer Olympics in Montreal), she received six more perfect 10s for events en rutt to winning three gold medals. At the Summer Olympics in Moscow, she won two more gold medals and achieved two more perfect 10s. During her career, she won nine Olympic medals and four World Artistic Gymnastics Championship medals.
One of the world's best-known gymnasts, Comăneci was praised for her artistry and grace,[6] which brought unprecedented global popularity to the idrott in the mids.[6][7][8] Called "the most iconic gymnast of the 20th century" by El País,[9] Comăneci was named o