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A perfect 10 once broke the scoreboard

Nadia Comaneci's routine at the 1976 Olympics displayed as 1.00

At the 1976 Montreal Olympics, 14-year-old Nadia Comaneci scored the first perfect 10 in Olympic gymnastics, on the uneven bars. The scoreboard could only show three digits, with no space for a 10, so it displayed 1.00. She went on to score seven perfect tens at those Games.

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Where does this come from, and can I check it?: Nadia Comaneci's routine at the 1976 Olympics displayed as 1.00. The figure is taken from Olympics.com, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.
Is this really a sports fact?: Yes. It sits on the Sports shelf, one of 1,090 sourced facts grouped into space, animals, the human body, history, science and more. Category pages collect every fact in the same field.
What else can I read about it?: The links under the fact point to a quiz, game, puzzle or calculator on the same subject, and the shelf below shows related facts. The wording here is original, and quoted phrases are marked as quotations.