When on July 19, 1976, at the Games in Montreal, tiny as she was, only 149 centimetres tall and weighing 38.5 kilograms, she jumped up to the two-height loom, no one in the world could have dreamed that this tiny 14-year-old girl would print in less than a minute history of sports. Every swing, every jump, and every turn is executed to perfection. Her every movement was accompanied by a smile.

Nadia was in a trance and nothing but the exercise existed. Nadia Comaneci performed the exercise so perfectly that she managed to "confuse" even the flawless Swiss Omega scoreboard, which was not programmed for pure perfection. Nadia Comaneci earned the first ten in the history of gymnastics, and since the computer was not ready for something similar, the only way the judges could give the maximum score was to show the worst score on the scoreboard - one. The very fact that she got the first ten in history is a big deal, and the fact that the scoreboard could not show those ten makes that score even more legendary. Nellie Kim also got a ten, but no one talked about it. It was the first of five medals that Comaneci won in Montreal.

Overnight, she went out of sports dimensions and became a pop icon, so much so that her perfect exercise on the beam was displayed at the entrance to the famous Madison Square Garden. In the history of gymnastics, there were many girls who were more successful than Nadia, who won many more medals and titles. In terms of a number of medals and titles, Simone Biles, Svetlana Horkina, and Larisa Latinjina are far more successful than Comaneci, but only Nadia Comaneci was and stayed a symbol for gymnastics and pure perfection in performance. In other words, Nadia Comaneci is gymnastics itself.