Jottings - Slice of life - 311 ( A Romanian princess is crowned at Wimbledon)
Jottings - Slice of life - 311 ( A Romanian princess is crowned at Wimbledon) On 18th July 1976, in the Montreal Olympics, a young Romanian, Nadia Comaneci, aged fourteen had just finished her routine on the uneven bars for twenty-three seconds, only to find the scoreboard reflecting seven 1.0’s, the lowest score possible in gymnastics. There was confusion, some amount of pandemonium in the stadium, and the referees looked at each other in disbelief. The young girl was flawless in her execution of the difficult routine, and the score on the Omega powered screen didn’t seem to make sense. A few minutes later, one of the judges stood up, amidst the impatient humming and dissonance in the crowd, and announced that Nadia had achieved a perfect 10, a score considered impossible in the sport of gymnastics and that the scoreboard was equipped to display a maximum of 9 and not more than that. So when a score of ten was posted by the judges, the screen could only display “1.0”. There was a