Nadia Comaneci (Montreal 1976): Not many athletes get to force changes in their sport through the sheer weight of their individual brilliance, but that is what Comaneci achieved. In a sport reliant on the often questionable subjective views of judges, Comaneci achieved on the uneven bars what no one believed was possible - perfection. In fact, so unlikely was the prospect of a perfect 10, that the scoreboard was not able to cope with it, leaving Comaneci staring disbelieving at a score of 1.0, until the realisation crept in that she had forever changed her sport. She did it a further six times during the course of the Games.
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