It is necessary to see it to realize it. Feline on the beam, careful and sleeve asymmetric bars, air, in open competition... To each event, Nadia Comaneci springs, such as a dragonfly breaking through the surface of the water without ever coming to disturb the peace and quiet. In the gym olympique in Montreal, the scene of the 1976 olympics, the gravity theorized by Newton three hundred years earlier seems to have no effect on it.

The bars in particular, its demonstration leaves the audience speechless. During the final, his front somersault with a half-turn also leaves you breathless to the judges. The...

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