Word: perfectly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...world. It is the crown Nadia Comaneci once wore, and Lyudmila Tourischeva, and which Olga Korbut, for all her charm, was too limited an athlete to achieve. Retton sealed her claim to it in the most dramatic duel in the history of the sport, winning by performing a perfect 10 in her final event, the vault-not once but twice. A lesser score would have meant defeat, or at best a tie. But while the nation held its breath, she flew off the vault and into gymnastics history...
...fantasy. "We'd pretend it was the Olympics," Vidmar recalls. "We'd turn off the radio, and the gym would be all silent. We'd go to the high bar, and then we'd say, 'O.K., we have to hit both of our routines perfect in order to win the Olympic gold medal.' We always laughed, because it seemed so unrealistic. And all of a sudden, we found ourselves in that exact situation. It was incredible." But not as incredible as how they lived out the dream. Daggett scored a 10 and Vidmar...
...world. That includes the absent Soviets, who defeated the Rumanians in the 1983 world championships and whose top gymnast, Natalia Yurtchenko, would have been a favored contender for individual honors in these Olympics. Julianne McNamara is the best there is on the uneven bars. Her line is as perfect as a ballerina's, and she flows so lightly from one bar to the next, one movement to another, that the bars sing for her. She got a 10 to prove it. On the floor exercise, she won another perfect mark with choreography in which she seemed to levitate...
...then she leaped onto the springboard and pushed her handspring high toward the banner-draped rafters. She twisted, turned and landed without having to move so much as a toe to keep her balance. Neither Retton nor Karolyi nor the crowd needed a judge to tell them it was perfect. Without waiting for the 10 to flash, Retton ran to the barricades for a quick embrace with Karolyi, then, strutting the pigeon-toed linebacker's walk that more than anything else reveals her power, she hopped back on the runway to wave to the crowd and shake her fists...
...presented one of radio's most popular shows; the advent of rock dimmed its luster, however, and in the years before Waring's official 1980 retirement the size of both the group and its audiences shrank. On the side, in 1937, Waring used his tinkering skills to perfect, patent and market his Blendor, one of the first food processors, which earned him royalties for the rest of his life...