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Forty-five years ago,Nadia Comăneci makes the history of the Olympic Games. At only 14 years, Comăneci became the first person to mark a perfect gymnasticOlympic Games. The incredible step occurred at the 1976 Montreal Games and it was only the beginning of an upcoming Olympic career. Comăneci then had six more perfect 10 in Montreal and wins three gold medals. Four years later, at the 1980 Olympics of Moscow, the Romanian gymnast had two perfect 10 people and won two other gold medals, which wears a total of five. She also has three Olympic silver medals and bronze.

Comăneci is definitely an Olympic legend, and now it is excited by the 2021 games that begin. While preparing to watch a new generation of gymnasts reach their Olympic dreams, let's take a look at the place where comăneci is today.

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When comăneciMarked his first perfect 10 on unequal bars At the 1976 Olympic Games, it was so unexpected that the dashboard did not even have a way to indicate it correctly. Since so long, the best scores had been 9 points - something that the dashboard could only show three digits (eg 9,95). So when Comăneci received a 10, the score was to be indicated as 1.00.

But, while it was unlikely that any gymnasium be given a perfect, Comăneci won six others during these games and Soviet gymnastsNellie Kim also received two. "Nobody told me that a perfect 10 has never been marked in Olympic history, so I came to do what I had supposed to do and all I trained to do"Comăneci said in an interview With CBC Sports in 2017.

Today, the perfect 10 no longer exists because of the rating of the gymnastics of the Olympic Games that changes completely in 2006.

The life of Comăneci has changed two huge ways in the 80s. Sheremoved from gymnastics in 1984 At the age of 22 with a special ceremony and exhibition routines. "I regret that now, I will never know the excitement of competition," she declared at the time, according to theNew York Times. "I'm sorry to never compete again."

Five years later, Comăneci made another great decision by disadvantaged in the United States before the revolution of Romania.

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After moving to the United States, Comăneci gathered withBART CONNER, a gymnast that had been to the American Olympic team in 1984 and had won two gold medals itself. Conner and Comăneci had already met in 1976 when he won the title of men and won the women in the American cup. They even took a picture in which Conner kissed his cheek. "The photographer said: 'Oh, she's adorable. Give him a kiss on the cheek, it would make a nice picture," "" Confere said later onOprah: Where are they now? (Going throughPeople)

After becoming friends first, Comăneci and Conner started dating, and in 1996 they got married in Bucharest. (Comăneci was allowed to return to Romania, which was no longer communist.) Conner and comănecihosted a son,Dylan, in 2006.

Comăneci and Conner co-possess the Bart Conner Gymnastics Academy in Oklahoma where they live. They also haveInternational gymnast magazine, perfect 10 productions and handles, etc., a gymnastics supply company, according totheir website. In Romania, Comăneci started the Nadia Comăneci Foundation and Nadia Comăneci's Children's Clinic, which provides health care to children in need. Comăneci wrote his brief,Letters to a young gymnast, in 2004.

In addition to all this, the gymnast of more than 59 years has also worked as an analyst and commentator for several gym competitions, including the Olympic Games. A look athis instagramShow how excited she is for this year's games.

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