Nadia Elena
Comăneciis a Romanian former gymnast, winner of three Olympic gold medals at
the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal and the first female gymnast to be awarded
aperfect score of 10 in an Olympic gymnastic event. She also won two gold
medals at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow. If 10
[ at that time ] is perfect, what could be the worst …… ? can there ever be a zero ??
The FINA World Championships or World Aquatics Championships are
the World Championships is now on at Russia – the competitions are for Aquatics sports: Swimming, Diving, High
Diving, Open Water Swimming, Synchronized Swimming and Water Polo. The event
was first held in 1973 and is now held every two years.
Australian
Maddison Keeney's disastrous dive at the World Titles earned her a ZERO from
the judges (but a perfect 10 points on the internet!). MailOnline reports that the Australian diver
Maddison Keeney bombed out of the World Aquatics Championships in Russia with
an embarrassing performance in the final round.The young gun's nerves appeared
to have got the better of her and following the disastrous dive she slipped
from fourth place to twelfth.As the maneuver carried a high degree of
difficulty at 3.2, if she had nailed it the 19-year-old may have landed herself
on the podium.
The
19-year-old looked downcast after her dive, which she failed to score any
points. The Kiwi-born baulked and all
but fell off the platform, failing to register a score and relegating her to
last in the 12-strong quality field (226.05). Footage from the event showed the
19-year-old bouncing on the platform before appearing to lose her balance.She
was propelled from the front of the diving board and completed a move that one
might see at their local pool.
It
was almost a carbon copy of Keeney's 2014 Glasgow Commonwealth Games effort
where too she bombed. Keeney looked
primed for 1m gold in Scotland, only to baulk on the platform before her
second-last dive, costing her a two point deduction and relegating her to
silver.Following her disaster dive this week, Keeney's teammate and
Commonwealth 3m champion Esther Qin (280.50 points) claimed an impressive fifth
placing in the women's one-metre platform final at Kazan.Certainly something embarrassing
and distraught for the individual.
In gymnastics, the
maximum possible score was a perfect 10 until the rules were changed in 2006 by
the International Gymnastics Federation.
Besides, Romanian Nadia Comăneci Mary Lou Retton in 1984 and Daniela
Silivaș
in 1988 too have got the perfect 10. Currently, there are different top scores
for various events based upon difficulty ratings and no consistent perfect
score.
Nadia hails from
Romania, where she was born in 1961.She began gymnastics at nursery school, and
by age 6 she was chosen to attend a specialist gymnastics school. She retired from competitive gymnastics after
the 1984 Olympics. After a series of
competition and exhibition trips to the United States, She was forbidden to
leave the country for any reason other than for gymnastics.In 1989 she defected
from Romania to the United States, shortly before the revolution. She later
married former American Gymnast Bart Conner, and returned to Romania in 1996
after the fall of communism. Their wedding was broadcast live on Romanian
television.She now has dual American and Romanian citizenship.
With regards – S.
Sampathkumar
31st July 2015.
