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Article History

Type Description Contributor Date
Modified title of Web site: International Olympic Committee - Nadia Comaneci. Sep 29, 2026
Anniversary information added. Nov 08, 2025
Add new Web site: CNN - Human to Hero: Nadia Comaneci - Olympic gymnastics' first perfect 10. Oct 08, 2025
Add new Web site: Europeana - Nadia Comaneci - Triple Olympic Champion. May 23, 2025
Add new Web site: BBC Sounds - Sporting Witness - Nadia Comaneci. Mar 26, 2025
Questions and answers added. Feb 19, 2025
Add new Web site: All American Entertainment Speakers - Nadia Comaneci. Jun 25, 2024
Add new Web site: Bart Conner Gymnastics Academy - About Nadia Comaneci. Apr 19, 2024
First paragraph modernization. Feb 23, 2024
Links added. Nov 10, 2023
Add new Web site: International Olympic Committee - Nadia Comaneci. Aug 30, 2021
Revised her birth information. Feb 14, 2019
Media added. Oct 19, 2017
Replaced photograph. Jun 02, 2017
Media added. Nov 12, 2014
Mentioned that she was the second person inducted into the International Gymnastics Hall of Fame. Nov 12, 2014
Add new Web site: International Gymnastics Hall of Fame - Biography of Nadia Comaneci. Sep 03, 2013
Article revised and updated. Oct 25, 2007
Added new Web site: BBC News - Biography of Nadia Comaneci. Sep 24, 2007
Added new Web site: Olympic.org - Biography of Nadia Comaneci. Sep 24, 2007
Article revised. Nov 13, 2003
Article added to new online database. May 04, 1999
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