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NADIA COMANECI’S PERFECT SCORE                      TRACK 44


              Interviewer: How do you feel coming back to Montreal?

              Nadia Comaneci: Well, it feels great to come back to
              Montreal, it's always emotions when I come here. Even
              though I’ve been a couple of times since the games in ’76,
              I also lived here for a year and a half. And everything that’s
              happening today with me, and my life, it’s because of that
              moment that happened here in Montreal.

              Interviewer: So, basically, your life was decided when you
              were a kid.
              Nadia Comaneci: Yes, I was a kid, but I think I knew what
              I was doing, you know, people –they were thinking of me as
              a kid, but I think that I'd been in gymnastics for so many
              years that I didn’t consider myself as a young person.

              Interviewer: What did you do to stay calm?

              Nadia Comaneci: I just thought about, you know, I know
              what I’ve done in training; this is what I’m supposed to do
              here just to be able to concentrate.

              Interviewer: Were you overwhelmed by so many people?

              Nadia Comaneci: Of course, I was overwhelmed by so many
              people because there was a big arena, and a lot of noise
              from every direction.

              Interviewer: How were you able to concentrate?

              Nadia Comaneci: I think I was prepared for that and I
              was telling to myself the whole time. You know, this is the
              Olympics. I cannot make a mistake. This is one shot.

              Interviewer: And then you did what you had prepared and
              after the routine you were given a perfect 10.




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