Dominant to Disqualified
By grace handakas
Dominant to DisqualifiedMay 03, 2021
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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:
Videos mentioned:
Catalina Ponor's Test Event vault
Further reading:
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
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