In 1976, Nadia Comaneci scored the first perfect ten at the Olympics. In 2016, Romania failed to send a team to the Olympics at all. How is a gymnastics power built? Even more importantly, how is it brought down?

Resources I used to create this episode:

Romanian medal table

Rocker Gymnastics

End of the Perfect 10

GymCastic

Videos mentioned:

Nadia's first perfect 10

Catalina Ponor's Test Event vault

Further reading:

The New ‘Youth Fountain’ of Romania: How Tennis Overtook Gymnastics as the Premier Juvenile Sport of the Country

The Test Event Reflections: Romania

Romania’s Olympic gymnastics failure: where did it all go wrong?

Superpower: Romanian women’s gymnastics during the Cold War

Music: Komiku- The road we use to travel when we were kids