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	Nadia Comaneci
		Nadia Elena Comaneci (born November 12, 1961 in Gheorghe Gheorghiu-dej [now Oneşti]) is a Romanian gymnast, a winner of five Olympic medals and the first to be awarded a perfect score of 10 in an Olympic gymnastic event.
		Nadia retained her Olympic title in the balance beam, tied for the gold medal in the floor exercise, and the Romanian team finish second.
		Nadia is now the Vice-Chair of the Board Of Director of International Special Olympics, the Honorary President of Romanian Gymnastics Federation, The Honorary President of Romanian Olympics Committee, The Ambassador Of Sports Of Romania, the Vice President of the Board of Director of Muscular Dystrophy Association, Member of International Gymnastics Federation Foundation,etc..
	encyclopedia.codeboy.net /wikipedia/n/na/nadia_comaneci.html (1561 words)

	Nadia Comaneci - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Nadia Elena Comaneci (originally Comăneci /ko.mə'neʧʲ/) (born November 12, 1961) is a Romanian gymnast, winner of five Olympic gold medals, and the first to be awarded a perfect score of 10 in an Olympic gymnastic event.
		Comaneci was born in Oneşti, Romania on 12 November 1961, the daughter of Gheorghe and Ştefania-Alexandrina.
		Comaneci and Conner were married in Romania on April 27, 1996, holding their wedding reception in the former Presidential Palace; the ceremony was heavily followed by world wide press and media, live broadcasting throughout Romania.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nadia_Comaneci (1941 words)

	Nadia Comaneci - MSN Encarta
		Nadia Comaneci, born in 1961, Romanian-born gymnast, a favorite of fans and the media at the 1976 Olympic Games in Montréal, Québec, Canada, where she won three gold medals and a bronze medal in individual competition, and a silver medal for the Romanian team's second-place finish.
		Comaneci continued winning in her age group and collected other junior titles until she began senior competition in 1975, when she entered the European championships, winning the all-around title and three individual events.
		Comaneci went on to compete at the 1980 Olympics in Moscow, winning individual gold medals in the floor-exercise and balance-beam events.
	encarta.msn.com /encnet/refpages/RefArticle.aspx?refid=761576421 (270 words)

	Cork Dorks
		Nadia was accepted into the new Gymnastics High School, where she spent four hours a day in the gym and five in the classroom.
		Nadia says that all she remembered was that the American team was full of blonde men.
		Nadia even co-hosted a French TV program on athletes of the century, for which she herself was honored.
	groups.msn.com /CorkDorks/nadiacomaneci.msnw (1029 words)

	Nadia Comaneci (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.virginia.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Comaneci at the 1976 Montreal Olympic Games Nadia Elena Comaneci (originally Com&259;neci) (born November 12, 1961) is a Romanian-born gymnast, winner of five Olympic medals, and the first to be awarded a perfect score of 10 in an Olympic gymnastic event.
		Comaneci was born in Onesti, Romania, the daughter of Gheorghe and Stefania-Alexandrina; She was named after "Nadezhda" ("Hope"), the heroine of a Russian film.
		Comaneci is the Vice-Chair of the Board Of Directors of International Special Olympics, the Honorary President of Romanian Gymnastics Federation, the Honorary President of Romanian Olympics Committee, the Ambassador Of Sports Of Romania, a Vice President of the Board of Directors of the Muscular Dystrophy Association, and a Member of International Gymnastics Federation Foundation.
	nadia-comaneci.iqnaut.net.cob-web.org:8888 (857 words)

	INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE - ATHLETES
		Romania's Nadia Comaneci was the star of the Montreal Olympics in 1976 when she became the first gymnast in Olympic history to be awarded the perfect score of 10.0.
		Comaneci first achieved her perfect 10 on the uneven parallel bars in 1976 and the judges awarded her the maximum mark seven times during the Games.
		Comaneci first came to prominence at the 1975 European Championships, at which she won four gold medals.
	www.olympic.org /uk/athletes/heroes/bio_uk.asp?PAR_I_ID=44503 (179 words)

	ABC Sports - Wide World of Sports
		Comaneci was then the star of the 1976 Montreal Olympics, where she became the first woman to score a perfect 10 when she earned it on the uneven bars.
		Nadia closed out her career at the World University Games in 1981 by winning the all-around, vault, uneven bars, beam, floor exercise as well as the team gold.
		WWOS followed Nadia back to Romania when she returned to her homeland for the first time in 1995 after defecting to the United States in 1989 and is reunited with her father and stepmother.
	espn.go.com /abcsports/wwos/nadiacomaneci.html (251 words)

	GymnasticGreats.com: Whatever happened to Nadia Comaneci?
		Nadia was born on November 12, 1961 in Onesti.
		Nadia proceeded to sweep nearly all of the golds; the AA and 3 of 4 event finals (Nellie Kim won floor).
		Nadia traveled to the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics as a guest, the last time she would be allowed to travel outside of Eastern Europe.
	www.gymnpics.com /gymnasticgreats/wag/comaneci.htm (1938 words)

	Nadia Comaneci...Timeless (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Nadia earned two gold and silver medals, to bring her Olympic career totals to five gold, three silver, and a bronze.
		Nadia Comaneci, dressed in a white gown with six young gymnasts to hold the twenty-one foot train, exchanged vows with Bart Conner in front of 150 guests.
		Nadia Comaneci leads a happy life, with her fair-haired prince, and continues to contribute to the sport she loves.
	www.nadiacomaneci.com /news/timeless.htm (1378 words)

	Nadia Comaneci
		Nadia was born in the little industrial town of Onesti, at the foot of Carpathian Mountains, (population 40'000 people) in 1961.
		Nadia was The Star of the 1976 Olympics in Montreal where she became the very first woman to score a perfect 10 (uneven bars) on her way to winning three Gold medals, one Silver and one Bronze.
		Nadia speaks five languages and is active with the Canadian Quebec Agency for adopted Romanian children.
	www.romanian-gymnastics.com /profiles/1976olympics/nadia_comaneci.htm (912 words)

	Gymn Forum: The Epistle (Nadia Comaneci, 1979) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Nadia is a symbol -- a child-star from a communist country (Romania).
		She is loved for her child-like manner and admired for her incredible talent, yet her private life is veiled for the most part by the mystery surrounding the customs and politics of her country.
		All of the nurses on Nadia's floor signed an All Saints' patient handbook for her to keep as a memento of her stay.
	www.gymn-forum.com /Articles/Misc-Comaneci-1979.html (486 words)

	Amazon.ca: Letters to a Young Gymnast: Books: Nadia Comaneci (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Romanian-born Comaneci took the sports world by storm when, at the age of 14, she was the first person in Olympic history to earn a perfect score in gymnastics.
		Although Comaneci's descriptions of her harsh life in Romania (although far easier than most) under dictator Ceausescu are compelling, and her decision to defect in 1989 completely understandable, she does not acknowledge that the man who facilitated her escape, Constantin Panait, was anything other than a personal manager.
		Nadia as honest as she has been tell us what she was actually had been through.
	www.amazon.ca /Letters-Young-Gymnast-Nadia-Comaneci/dp/0465012760 (1990 words)

	NADIA COMANECI - ROMANIA
		NADIA COMANECI, the most celebrated gymnast in the history of gymnastics, has left a competitive record that will be virtually impossible to match or surpass.
		She was the star of the 1976 Montreal Olympics, where she became the very first woman to score a perfect 10 on her way to winning three Gold medals, one Silver and one Bronze.
		Nadia continued her dominance through the 1980 Olympics in Moscow, where she won two Gold and two Silver medals.
	www.ighof.com /honorees/honorees_nadia.html (125 words)

	Nadia Comaneci
		When Nadia was about 14 she scored the first perfect 10 at the Olympics in Women's Gymnastics.
		Nadia Comaneci was born to Gheorge and Stefania-Alexandria Comaneci on November 12, 1961 in Onesti, a factory town in the mountains of Romania.
		Nadia was the first to arrive in the morning and start warming up for her workout.
	www2.lhric.org /pocantico/womenenc/comaneci.htm (921 words)

	Nadia Comaneci
		And the former gymnast listened to her husband and decided to involve herself in building a unique edifice, inside a Romanian patriarchate, that will be named after her.
		The Nadia Comaneci Children's clinic – located in the St. Spiridon Vech church's yard – will contain 4 buildings with 20 medical offices, an isolating area for contagious children, a pharmacy, 8 labs, a canteen, balneary-theraphy room, and dining hall.
		Former Romanian great gymnast Nadia Comaneci received on Friday "The Legendary Champion" trophy, awarded for the first time in Romania, by The House of Champions Foundation.
	www.nadiacomaneci.com (848 words)

	A perfect 10! - The Summer of '76: Montreal's Olympic Games - CBC Archives
		• Nadia Comaneci was born in Onesti, Romania in 1961.
		It claimed Comaneci's perfect scores were the result of the Soviet judges' scheme to inflate all scores to ensure a Russian win in the team competition.
		Pound said Comaneci was clearly superior to the others and deserved to win, but her perfect 10s only came about because the other scores had been so high to begin with.
	archives.cbc.ca /IDC-1-41-1316-7923/sports/montreal_olympic_games/clip8 (639 words)

	Nadia Comaneci - Gymnastics Olympians Speakers Bureau
		At the 1976 Olympics in Montreal, Canada, the world met "Nadia." At age 14, this Romanian dynamo captured the hearts and minds of the world with her daring and perfection.
		In November 1989, no longer able to stand the repressive regime that ruled her country, she fled across the border, eventually landing in the U.S. More than twenty years after her glory in Montreal, her life is nearly as perfect as the scores she earned.
		Comaneci now divides her time between performing exhibitions, commercial endorsements for major companies, speaking engagements and charity events.
	www.allamericanspeakers.com /speakerbio/Nadia_Comaneci.php (620 words)

	Memorable Olympic Moments: Nadia Comaneci
		Nadia Comaneci performs at the Montreal Olympics in 1976.
		Comaneci was supposed to contend with the Russian juggernaut but no one, including coach Bela Karolyi (who later coached Mary Lou Retton in 1984 and the Kerri Strug-led American women's team in 1996) could have imagined what was to come.
		Comaneci actually won two more gold medals in 1980 in Moscow, but did not receive nearly as much fanfare due to the United States' boycott of the games.
	www.infoplease.com /spot/mm-comaneci.html (463 words)

	Nadia Comaneci (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Comaneci, Nadia (1961-), Romanian gymnast, a favorite of fans and the media at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montréal, Canada, where she won three gold medals and a bronze in individual competition and a silver team medal.
		Born in Onesti, Romania, Comaneci was noticed by renowned Romanian gymnastics coach Bela Karolyi (who later emigrated to the United States) when she was six years old.
		Comaneci continued winning in her age group and collected other junior titles until she began senior competition in 1975, when she entered the European championship, winning the overall title and three individual events.
	www.distinguishedwomen.com /biographies/comaneci.html (248 words)

	Nadia Comaneci (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		July 23; the individual finals; scores 10.00 (6) on Bars, for a perfect maximum score of 20.00 Ditto for Beam, 10.00 (7) for a max of 20.00.
		Fall, 1977, the Romanian team tours Mexico and US; Nadia's body growth and weight gains are more apparent, but still pleases the crowd.
		Later, 1977; Bela Karolyi is removed as Nadia's coach and transferred.
	www.nadiacomaneci.com /bio.htm (1056 words)

	Interview: Nadia Comaneci
		Given the choice, Nadia Comaneci would have become a surgeon and indulged her fascination with blood on a daily basis.
		Despite spending her formative years in a gym, where she trained for at least six hours a day under the careful eye of Bela Karolyi, Comaneci never imagined that the rest of her life would be dictated by a feat she achieved as a 14-year-old.
		However, Comaneci is happy that she will be in the Greek capital only as a spectator.
	www.rediff.com /sports/2004/aug/06oly-gym.htm (884 words)

	BBC SPORT \| BBC TEAM \| Rider's legends: Nadia Comaneci
		Nadia Comaneci, was 14, fearless and a phenomenon who left Canada with three golds a silver and a bronze.
		In the team competition, on the uneven bars, she became the first gymnast in Olympic history to score a perfect `10`.
		Comaneci, who had beaten her idol Lyudmila Turischeva in the European Championships in 1975, had expectations but not as high as the goals she achieved.
	news.bbc.co.uk /sport1/hi/olympics2000/bbc_team/863540.stm (576 words)

	Comaneci Nadia - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Comaneci Nadia - Search Results - MSN Encarta
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	uk.encarta.msn.com /Comaneci_Nadia.html (106 words)

	Olympic Legends: Nadia Comaneci
		Comaneci's routines were so advanced that gymnastics critic Josef Goehler exclaimed: "From a bio-mechanic viewpoint this is hardly conceivable."
		During one of his expeditions Karolyi saw two tiny five-year-olds pretending to be gymnasts in a school yard but lost sight of them in the confusion when the bell rang to signal the end of break.
		Under Nicolae Ceausescu's brutal regime, Comaneci led a privileged life as a member of the Romanian elite with cars, jewelry and a villa.
	www.rediff.com /sports/2004/aug/12oly-gym.htm (425 words)

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