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Dominant to Disqualified grace handakas
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A look at the rise and fall of the Romanian gymnastics program.
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Dominant to Disqualified: The Rise and Fall of Romanian Gymnastics
In 1976, Nadia Comaneci scored the first perfect ten at the Olympics. In 2016, Romania failed to send a team to the Olympics at all. How is a gymnastics power built? Even more importantly, how is it brought down?
Resources I used to create this episode:
Romanian medal table
Rocker Gymnastics
End of the Perfect 10
GymCastic
Videos mentioned:
Nadia's first perfect 10
Catalina Ponor's Test Event vault
Further reading:
The New ‘Youth Fountain’ of Romania: How Tennis Overtook Gymnastics as the Premier Juvenile Sport of the Country
The Test Event Reflections: Romania
Romania’s Olympic gymnastics failure: where did it all go wrong?
Superpower: Romanian women’s gymnastics during the Cold War
Music: Komiku- The road we use to travel when we were kids