Nadia Elena Comaneci

The athlete earned international acclaim and admiration by giving the world one of the most remarkable moments in the past of sport - scoring the world's first ten-point perfect score on bars that were symmetrical, during the Montreal Olympic Games in 1976. In 1976, Nadia Comaneci would go on to rack up six more perfect 10s. She also became the oldest Olympic silver medalist. Not only did Nadia Comaneci attract attention from everywhere and help Romania find itself a place on the map of the world. She was a sports star who came into the spotlight after achieving a record-breaking number of points, thereby creating a legend and popularizing gymnastics as an athletic sport throughout the globe. The sport also altered the perception of women gymnasts. Her influence on the Olympics was so great it is that 2 of her movements such as the toe-on movement and the release movement, are dedicated to her. Both are rated as being high-level difficult. Besides Olympics the gymnast showed a remarkable performance at the World Championships and European Championships too, and thus became a living legend and one of the greatest gymnasts this world has ever get. In the years following her return to the US and the United States, the "Queen of Olympics' took up modeling as well as promoting sports equipment.