Nadia Comaneci - 1976 Olympic Gold Balance Beam Routine

no im from bacau, but onesti is in bacau lol

you're from onesti?

city lol

and i cant belive shes from my coty :o

It wasn't a perfect landing (slight stutter of the planting of her feet) but still amazing!

Nadia este cea mai tare! Haide ROMANIA!!!!

She has suction cups on the bottom of her feet. And a gyro hidden on her person somewere:) That's the only way I can see her completing this routine ;)

this is art

I think it doesn't depend on your nacionality to be as she was, it depends on your personal strenght, abilities and training.
She was a natural star! she was so damn good I can believe how nobody has get to her level nowadays...she was the best gimnast ever

SHE IS ROMANIAN !

I wish i could do that. SOOO MUch

I cannot agree more. What makes performances from Nadia and Olg'a era so memorable and pleasing is not the "bigger, faster, higher" feats now abruptly strung together but rather how much their overall routine impresses.

There are no discordant movments, ever. Utterly every part of their body moves at all times with a controlled fluidity and graceful precision simply not seen anymore. Without artistry it is impossible to touch the soul and create a truly memorable performance.

I also think her form and her lines are unparalled. They stuff she was doing was not easy by any means either, even for today.

I don't think anyone has really mastered this level of expertise or the sheer concentration she had, that every move precise and sure at the same time.

I still think she's better than any of the gymnasts I saw in the Olympics in 2008. The Chinese may have won gold, but she was 14 here, and yes she is small but she does not look like a child the way they do and her body has nice dimensions, therefore adding to the appearance of grace in movement.

YOu're absolutely right. If she did that exact routine with no errors, a ten would not be given. Judges simply do not give tens because a more perfect routine can apparently always be achieved. Gymnasts nowadays simply make their aim a 9.8 because of the ludicrous deductions given.A judge once said that he'd have to give a chinese gymnast a quarter of a tenth of a deduction. What? Why?