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Nadia Comaneci: Yes, I couldn’t believe it.

            Interviewer: What did you think when you saw the score?

            Nadia Comaneci: At first, I was confused because the
            scoreboard displayed “1.00”, because they believed it was
            impossible to receive a perfect 10, so the scoreboard was
            not programmed to display that score. Soon, I understood
            what had happened and I was very happy.

            Interviewer: Did you know what a perfect score meant?

            Nadia Comaneci: I didn’t – I knew that 10 was
            a big deal, because I’ve done gymnastics for eight – nine
            years, and I’ve done competitions, and I had even done the
            same routines, but I was too young to understand that. And I
            think it was better that I didn’t understand.
            Interviewer: But despite that, you made history.

            Nadia Comaneci: Well, yes, but I didn’t come here to
            Montreal to make history. I didn’t even know what that
            meant, to make history. Nobody told me that a perfect 10
            had never been scored before in Olympic history.

            Interviewer: What do you think about yourself as a teenage
            girl who achieved a perfect score in the Olympics?
            Nadia Comaneci: The older I get, I realize that what I did
            was such a big thing, which I didn’t realize then. I was 14
            and I was like, “I know what I’m doing. I’m going to go to the
            Olympics.” I still question myself about how a little kid has
            that kind of drive to be able to do that. “You just go, girl.”
            That’s what I was saying. Yeah, never give up and just follow
            what you feel inside your heart.





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