Nadia Comaneci - Olympic Gold (part 1) 

Nadia-The prettiest and most complete and most perfect gymnast of all time.Period.

Today's Female Gymnastics need to learn from Nadia Comaneci, She is truly a goddess!

Nadia is far and away the greatest this sport has or will ever produce.

A true legend she epitomised grace, poise, balance, beauty and above all perfection

Nadia is still the greatest,and always will be.

Those who say her routines are "easy" are missing the point; that was the key to Nadias greatness, she was able to make it LOOK EASY;) Her uncanny ability to make tiny corrections in the air made everything look so seamless and perfect; she could feel if she took off wrongly and was able to make split second mental calculations to cover up any error, so it wasnt visible to anyone watching; that is the secret of her greatness, we will never see it again.

I watched this as it happened. I saw the best of all times there. Nadia Still Queen.

I remember these Olympics simply because of Nadia. I was never a fan of gymnastics or any type of sports similar to this but Nadia was the one who showed me and I am sure the rest of the world not only the technical difficultly of gymnastics but also the beauty and grace that she displayed. Because of Nadia I have since enjoyed watching this sport and appreciate and in awe of both men and women and their commitment and dedication to their love of gymnastics. I will never forget the impact Nadia made at this Olympics Games...

I adored being a gym coach. Teaching. Nadia changed the world. No one can copy that !

I'm Romanian I met Nadia years ago I used to be a gymnast at 17

Is it just me or does old school gymnastics look a lot different then what you see now? I like the old school better

What was so incredible about Nadias gymnastics is her routines the following day always looked like a rerun of her routines the day before, they were so consistent and controlled; she could be woken at 3 in the morning and do the routine perfectly, she was a very well coached gymnast.

Nadia the best

Her body is as light as feathers. Just. WOW.

i like old school gymnastics so much better

Nadia Absolutely Flawless to this day!

Nadia mire todos tus videos ahora sos toda una mujer mni vos sabe que. Con 14 años rompiste todas las reglas de la gimnasia.un comentarista de aquel tiempo dijo esta chica es de otro planeta nadia soy argentino.emn las olimpiada del 76 te admire igual que en el 80 llore cuando caiste del tapecio.eras una nena hermosa y tan responsable de todo lo que hacias ahra te veo como mujer segui siendo hermosa una reina.y gracia x seguir viendote en los videos fuiste unica la mejor de todas y lo segui siendo nadia comaneci la mejor una reina

I love this video, it just gives me chills, how Nadia became the greatest sport legend, how one little girl made gymnastics and olympics to be popular, it's like she saves the world or surprise the world, and destroys the soviets, thanks for share the video

This is so beautiful.

Nadia Comaneci is a legend, is an example all gymnasts in the world, and is Romanian!

nadia is like a ballerina i so love her,te iubim nadia

She is perfect.

Nadia A proud of romania Once in a magazine in 1990 i read the name of nadia and now search her and found that what a good athlete nadia is.now i saw many more athlete and nadia is ever best. Alena mukhina olga korbout and nadia the best in the world

Nadia!! Gracias por existir!! es un placer ver Tú Perfeción!!!

R O M A N I A ! ! !

So apparently the scoring system has changed. Not much of a gymnast fan but just heard about this. Also, why does this routine look so badass compared to the stuff you see today. I mean she uses both bars simultaneously whereas today they just bounce back and forth between bars.... and that landing when she whips her body around the low bar is something I have never seen in recent memory. nuts.

Nadia saves the 76olympics, first score 10.00 and made gymnastics popular, showed perfection is possible, what more can ask for from girl who's only fourteen years old, Va multumesc foarte mult Nadia, thanks for thrill and sportsmanship that nadia had showed us.

but anyway, i really adore nadia comaneci.. she's a legend..

Well said. Now it is more like robotics than gymnastics.

Nadia represented ROMANIA. We are proud of her !!!!

Amazing

you cannot bring back this golden moment but i have 2 CD's of this event/ i hanged it on my wall so that i will remember it the rest of my life.

You'd think that after her second perfect 10, that the Olympics would have fashioned a new score counter to suit such a score, just in case?

Respect

Nadia is the best gimnast I have ever seen.

Nadia is Romania !

amazing

ROMINIA Bravo nadia comaneci

Mayo 2.020. NADIE COMO NADIA. EL PERFECTO 10 UNA LEYENDA VIVIENTE.

Olga was popular at the time, but more to gymnastics fans than to the public. When Nadia came she did the impossible which obviously got the worlds attention.

Nádia perfeita ,unica

Love and respect!

true, but nadia made it more popular, perfect,exciting to watch. Olga is a great gymnast and won hearts in 72 olympic games but nadia change the sport and make it grow. but still i love both gymnasts they both great in their own ways

perfect

Biggest thing that ever happened to his sport!

I'm from Romania

I see comments that don't think Nadia was all that. I don't care what anyone thinks. You have your opinion, but what counts is the she was the first to get a 10!!! No matter what Olga did, hello!! Perfect 10 and the first to freaking do it. Go Nadia!! Best.

FUE INCREIBLE LO QUE LOGRASTE EN TU CARRERA DEPORTIVA. SIEMPRE LO RECORDAREMOS, SIEMPRE.

R O M A N I A 🇷🇴🇷🇴 lNADIA

I love you , Nadia ! Te iubim şi te stimăm foarte mult ! 💙💛❤

I had the exact same reaction, I was like "wtf no one does that flying eagle dismount stuff anymore!" So, I went looking, turns out the uneven bars have been moved further apart over the years, especially through the late 70s and early 80s. Originally they were just parallel bars with one lower and so 17 to 20 inches apart. Now they are 40 to 64 inches apart (horizontally) So that kind of stuff isn't even possible anymore. Which is too bad, because it looks way cooler than what they do now.

BRAVO NADIA! SUNTEM MANDRI DE TINE! ROMANIA TE IUBESTE!

No it would not be a deduction because she didn't rebound on the white so it is still a perfect ten

Thanks Guys!! :D And I'm also proud for Romania!

Una Leyenda !

This girl is from my country

Nadia herself said she felt her feet shift; she said she had actually done the routine better in training, she felt her feet move on the landing. Not her fault she was given a 10 was it????The point is her routine was obviously so much better than everyone elses, and others had been given 9.9 so the judges HAD to give her a 10 you see? Although she deserved it anyway; the routine itself was consummate technical perfection, minus the landing.

she didnt hop at the end get ur eyes checked, and i want to see yo do that routine. i bet u wouldnt be able to do half as good as her shes a legend

I don't care about what haters say about Nadia, she's considered a legend in México and i believe everyone thinks the same.

She was super beautiful and elegant beside she was super young

as much as i love seeing people break unbreakable records and doing near-impossible things, I have to agree that the little hop she had at the end would certainly have been a deduction by present day judges. she still would have gotton an outrageously high score though lol

La amo

by today standard you can easily deduct a few execution score from them

Yes, she had received many tens, as she herself would say; but this was the Olympics, the biggest sporting competition, the prize, and nobody had received a 10 here. So it wasnt "all for show". Who else had scored a 10 at the Olympics before Nadia?

nadia looks like emma watson

@kbgymnast08 This is from a Bud Greenspan Olympic documentary. It features various athletes from different sports.

Who is watching this in 2016 ?

Well you're kinda forced to hop or bend the knees to absorbe the energy and don't brake your legs since you don't have 30 cm of foam to soften the landing.

Totally agree..

What is the name of this documentary? I would love to see the full thing. Thanks!!

they were expected to hop then. gymnastics was much different then than now

Две гимнастки в мире великие Лена и Надя

She scored a ten at the American cup before this. This was the first ten in Olympic competition.

In fairness eugenjo Olga Korbut had made the breakthrough 4 years earlier. Nadia didn't make Gymnastics popular. She added to the popularity around Olga n '72.

Nadia comaneci = Ayrton Senna

I am proud Because I am Romanian

Deberían de hacer ya una película de la vida de Nadia comaneci

I love their logic. "Since we don't give 10s, we won't make a double digit board" real smart.

where do i begin? see nadia very good!!!!!!!

If you take it as a year She was 15 but if you take it as by day she was 14 cuz this was in 18 July 1976 and she was born in 12 November.Don't know why its 16+

Not to take away from Nadia, but she did take a hop in the landing of her first uneven P-bar routine. That should have been at least a .2 deduction. However she probably earned it back in originality and virtuosity with the perfect execution of the main exercise.

Romania

Well which documentary?

I want to watch the full documentary. Can you tell me what is the title? Thanks! ❤️

1:37 GO ROMANIA GO!

I loved watching her do her thing in this Olympics, it was amazing. But it looked like she took a slight step on the landing. Not sure if that's a deduction but I would think it would be.

NA nadia!!!!!!!!

its no deduction for one hop

Clip seems way too short.

why don't they do that finish anymore ? 1:57

Nop.Needer today 1 hop is deducted.You have to release that landing energy somehow

te iubim mult sora noastra

What exactly are the compulsory vs. optional events? Can someone please explain it to me?

Oh, so do you want to try this?

your good

What country did Nadia represent? Can anyone tell me?

Nada

Specially when the highest score that can be achieved IS a double score!

is that morgan freeman? like doing commentary?

what he is saying in 1:15?