The Hair, Like Nadia Comaneci’s. By SUSANNAH RODRIGUEZ DRISSI.

Mon, 01 Aug 2016 23:00:19 +0000
DOSSIERS, The Myths of Mariel, Cuban America, memory

In 1976, a fourteen year-old Romanian gymnast named Nadia Elena Comăneci scored a perfect 10 for her performance on the uneven bars in the Montreal Olympics. Until then, no gymnast had ever received a perfect score; in fact, the electronic score board was not programmed for such a triumph, thus the judges’ unanimous decision appeared …