Nadia Comaneci performing on the beam ©IOC

30th July 1980: Romanian gymnast Nadia Comaneci at the 1980 Moscow Olympic Games. (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images)

19 Jul 1980: Nadia Comaneci of Romania in action on the Beam during the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow, Soviet Union. Comaneci won the gold medal on the Beam and on the Floor. \ Mandatory Credit: Tony Duffy/Allsport

1976: Romanian gymnast Nadia Comaneci, famed for her consistently perfect scoring, at the 1976 Montreal Olympics. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

1976: Nadia Comaneci of Romania stands beside the balance beam during the Montreal Olympic Games in 1976. Comaneci was the first gymnast to achieve perfection in the Olympic arena, scoring a maximum ten points on the asymmetrical bars in the 1976 Gamesin Montreal and helping her country to the silver medal in the team event. Her aptitude for the sport was spotted when she was only six years old. Altogether she won nine Olympic medals, five of them gold. She retired in 1981 and went to live in the USAeight years later. Mandatory Credit: Tony Duffy/Allsport

21st July 1976: Nadia Comaneci, 14 year old Romanian gymnast, scored three maximum 10 out of 10 scores at the Montreal Olympics, the first perfect scores ever obtained by a gymnast in the Olympics. (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images)

22nd July 1976: Romanian gymnast Nadia Comaneci during her medal winning performance on the beam in the Montreal Olympics. (Photo by Express/Express/Getty Images)

Romanian gymnast Nadia Comaneci performs a routine on the balance beam during the Summer Olympics, Montreal, Canada 1976. Comaneci was awarded seven perfect scores and three gold medals. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

11 Jan 2002: Torchbearers Nadia Comaneci and Bart Conner carry the Olympic Flame during the 2002 Salt Lake Olympic Torch Relay in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. DIGITAL IMAGE. Mandatory Credit: Todd Warshaw/Pool/Getty Images

Swiss Timing evening, Juan Antonio SAMARANCH, IOC Pdt and Nadia COMANECI.