Null Montreal 1976. Nadia Comaneci, gymnastics © Robert Legros/L'Équipe July 18,…
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Montreal 1976. Nadia Comaneci, gymnastics © Robert Legros/L'Équipe July 18, 1976. Time may have passed, the Olympics may have come and gone, the Iron Curtain may have been torn down and teenage girls may have become women, but Nadia Comaneci will always be the 14-year-old gymnast who defied the laws of gravity. And the electronics, because the tables were not programmed to display the score 10, that of perfection, obtained seven times by the Romanian, a first at the Olympics. Gold medal in the all-around, on the uneven bars, on the beam, silver medal in the team competition, she won bronze on floor "where her movements enchant the mat, make it a flying carpet", wrote Antoine Blondin in "L'Équipe". Since then, we know the price Nadia Comaneci paid at the toughest school of sport in the East during the Cold War, to become a heroine of the Olympic legend. Single later print. Edition 1/1. Printed on Awagami Bizan White Medium Handmade 200g paper. Flamant art frame. Floating box made to measure. 42 X 59,5 cm

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Montreal 1976. Nadia Comaneci, gymnastics © Robert Legros/L'Équipe July 18, 1976. Time may have passed, the Olympics may have come and gone, the Iron Curtain may have been torn down and teenage girls may have become women, but Nadia Comaneci will always be the 14-year-old gymnast who defied the laws of gravity. And the electronics, because the tables were not programmed to display the score 10, that of perfection, obtained seven times by the Romanian, a first at the Olympics. Gold medal in the all-around, on the uneven bars, on the beam, silver medal in the team competition, she won bronze on floor "where her movements enchant the mat, make it a flying carpet", wrote Antoine Blondin in "L'Équipe". Since then, we know the price Nadia Comaneci paid at the toughest school of sport in the East during the Cold War, to become a heroine of the Olympic legend. Single later print. Edition 1/1. Printed on Awagami Bizan White Medium Handmade 200g paper. Flamant art frame. Floating box made to measure. 42 X 59,5 cm

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