Nadia Comăneci's perfect 10 flashed up as 1.00, because the scoreboard was never built to show it. Omega had asked the IOC how many digits the board needed and was told three, since a 10.00 was considered impossible. She was 14 that day, 18 July 1976, and went on to score seven 10s in Montreal. In 2006 the FIG rewrote its code of points, and top scores now go above 10. Fairer, sure. Also a little less magical.

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Never really watched gymnastics, but that was incredible.
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i saw this when broadcast
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