: Pause, rewind, play: At the 1976 Olympics, Nadia Comaneci gave perfection a new definition #IndiaNEWS In sport, as in life, we yearn for perfection. We want to push ourselves to be better versions

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Pause, rewind, play: At the 1976 Olympics, Nadia Comaneci gave perfection a new definition #IndiaNEWS
In sport, as in life, we yearn for perfection. We want to push ourselves to be better versions every day. That’s just how things are, we are forever looking to improve, to get better.But just imagine how the 14-year-old Nadia Comaneci would have felt during the 1976 Olympic Games at Montreal when she reeled off one perfect score after another. When the dust settled, the Romanian had scored seven perfect 10s to blow away the opposition and the scoreboard (which was not designed to show double-digit scores simply because no one was expected to be perfect). “I was told, ‘a 10.00 is not possible,’� recalled Daniel Baumat, now the director of Swiss Timing, which like Omega is part of the Swatch Group. “So we only did three digits.�So when Comaneci finished her first perfect routine of the day, on the uneven bars, the judges were in a bit of quandary. They knew that the scoreboard could not show 10. So, one of them approached Baumat and asked for a solution.“She asked what to do,� Baumat said. “I said that they could either put up 1.00 or .100 but that there was no possibility for a 10.00. Just as the federation had told me.�So, Comaneci became...Read more

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