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Nadia Comăneci scored the first perfect 10 in Olympic gymnastics. Breaking the scoreboard and expectations.

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At the 1976 Montreal Olympics, Comăneci scored the first recorded 10.0 in Olympic gymnastics. The scoreboard wasn’t built to display 10.00, so it famously showed 1.00 instead.

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