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Why is Nadia Comăneci famous?

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Romanian gymnast Nadia Comăneci was the first in her sport to receive a perfect score in an Olympic event. Her history-making performance came at the Montreal 1976 Olympic Games, where she earned seven scores of 10.0. Her first was in the uneven parallel bars—though the scoreboard initially displayed 1.00 because of a technical glitch.