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Romanian gymnast Nadia ComÄneci made history at the 1976 Olympics by earning the first-ever perfect score of â10â for her performance in the uneven bars competition. It is now legend that the scoreboard that day lacked the technical capacity to display the number because a perfect score was considered unattainableâit lit up â1.00.â Comaneci racked up six additional perfect 10s, emerging as the darling of those Games. The media began referring to her by first name alone. And I, an eight year old boy growing up in Montreal, where the Games were being held, became obsessed with her.