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Soviet gymnasts stunned the world with highly disciplined and difficult performances, setting a case in point that continues. The new medium of television has helped publicize and initiate a mod age of gymnastics. Both mens and womens gymnastics now attract extensive international interest, and excellent gymnasts can be found on every(prenominal) continent. Nadia Comaneci received the first blameless score, at the 1976 Summer Olympics held in Montreal, Canada. She was coached in Romania by coach, (Hungarian ethnicity), Bella Karolyn. Comaneci scored four of her perfect tens on the uneven bars, two on the balance beam and one in the floor exercise. Even with Nadias perfect slews, the Romanians lost the gold medal to the Soviet Union. Nevertheless, Comaneci became an Olympic icon. In 2006, physical body introduced a new points system for Artistic gymnastics in which scores are no longer limited to 10 points. The system is utilise in the US for elite level competition. Unlike t he old canon of points, there are two separate scores, an execution score and a difficulty score. In the previous system, the exe...