![]() ![]() But it still retains its magic, because it was THE competition. It’s a rather boring tape, with no commentary and piano music played for the whole duration. Short after I bought my first computer and learned how to surf the Internet, I began to trade gymnastics competitions on tape with people all over the world and one of the first competitions that I requested was the 1976 Olympics. It was only after many years that I first watched a real video of her on tape. I don’t know how many times I watched it before bringing it back, but I thought about every scene, and sang the music that plays during her legendary uneven bar exercise at the 1976 Olympics, and dreamed about being her, for months and months. The movie was on this videotape that was passed on among us little gymnasts and every single girl in the gym thought that Nadia was her hero. When I was 12 I watched for the first time the film “Nadia”, about the life and success of Romanian gymnast Nadia Comaneci. This book has a special meaning to me, because I was a gymnast myself and even if I never reached high levels, I’ve always enjoyed it immensely. ![]()
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