Perfection: Nadia Comaneci, the pint sized but powerful fourteen year-old from Romania scored the first perfect ten in the history of Olympic gymnastics. She went on to score six more tens and win three gold medals. To this day she is considered the greatest gymnast the world has known.
By the close of the Montreal games Soviet Nelli Kim acheived a ten of her own. Four years later Alexander Dityatin became the first man to record the perfect score.
A true team player. When his team needed a final good
result in order to win the Men's Gymnastics All-Around title, Japanese Shun Fujimotu
performed his routine on the ring apparatus with a broken leg. He managed to
land and maintain his balance for just long enough to give Japan a victory over the
Soviet Union....before being rushed to the hospital.