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Olympic gymnast Mary Lou Retton scores a perfect 10 in the vault to win the gold medal who defected from Romania, previously coached Nadia Comaneci in the 1976 Olympics
Wednesday, Aug. 06, 2008

Open quoteHow could they take away this beautiful, this most perfect thing from us, the one thing that separated our sport from the others?Close quote

  • BELA KAROLYI,
  • former gymnastics coach to Olympic gold-medal winner Mary Lou Retton, lamenting changes to gymnastics scoring that eliminate the perfect 10 Retton was awarded in 1984
Photo: Bettmann / CORBIS | Source: New York Times