Comaneci
Americannoun
noun
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Think Nadia Comaneci on the balance beam, Dick Fosbury flopping to victory in the high jump or Shun Fujimoto sticking his dismount from rings on a shattered knee.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2024
Navratilova speaks often about this, but sometimes it’s hard to imagine that people like her or Czech supermodel Paulina Porizkova or Romanian gymnast Nadia Comaneci fled oppression.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 28, 2022
The days of Nadia Comaneci and the perfect 10 are long gone.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 26, 2021
On the first day of the 2017 world championships, she was introduced in front of a crowd in Montreal, where Comaneci had made history 41 years before.
From New York Times ● Jul. 24, 2021
Bela and Marta Karolyi, who coached Romania's Nadia Comaneci before defecting in the 1980s, have been widely credited with transforming the U.S. into a gymnastics powerhouse.
From Salon ● Jul. 23, 2021
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