Nadia Comaneci awarded "The Legendary Champion" trophy
16/9/2006 12:11
Former Romanian great gymnast Nadia Comaneci received yesterday "The
Legendary Champion" trophy, awarded for the first time in Romania, by The House
of Champions Foundation.
"The name of Nadia Comaneci is synonymous with
Romania itself," said Mariana Gheorghe, Petrom's representative, a company that
is a partner of the House of Champions Foundation.
Nadia Comaneci received
the trophy from the famous trainers Octavian Belu and Mariana Bitang, state
counselors for sports at the Presidential Administration.
Nadia Comaneci
remarked that the trophy she received resemble the Oscar trophy. She expressed
her gratitude to the House of Champions Foundation, which gathers sportsmen and
sportswomen who successfully represented Romania in the world.
Mariana
Bitang, president of the House of Champions Foundation, underlined that the
trophy awarded to Nadia Comaneci is just the first from an ambitious project to
award prizes and sponsor gymnasts. The Foundation will sponsor for a year ten
little gymnasts.
It is practically impossible to talk about Gymnastics
without mentioning Nadia. She is a legend in this sport. At the 1976 Olympics
Nadia made history, becoming the first gymnast to ever score a perfect 10. At
those games she received 7 perfect 10s, three gold medals, one silver and one
bronze.
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