<p>Wearing seven-inch black stilettos, skinny jeans and a black figure-hugging T-shirt declaring “I’m Gold”, Nadia Comaneci was still turning heads in London 36 years after producing the defining image of Olympic gymnastics. <br /><br /></p>.<p>Yet the Romanian’s fashion designer had missed a trick. <br /><br />“(It says) I’m gold... but it should have had ‘I’m perfect” on the back,” she said dissolving into laughter as she looked down on the bold gold lettering in the front of her T-shirt. <br />She was spot on. “People don’t remember how many medals I won, all they remember is the history and the 1.00,” she added. <br /><br />That 1.00 signified the first perfect 10 achieved at an Olympics -- in Montreal in 1976. <br />The then 14-year-old’s soaring performance on the asymmetric bars was so exceptionally good, and so unexpected, that a scoreboard had yet to be devised that could record such perfection.<br /><br />So officials flashed up ‘1.00’. “I didn’t understand what that meant,” Comaneci, 50, said on Wednesday. “That’s all they could show. I was a little frustrated at the beginning because I thought I did better than one.” <br /><br />She certainly did. <br /><br />Her groundbreaking moment spurred hundreds of pixie Nadia clones to chase perfection. However, a judging scandal at the 2004 Olympics robbed future generations from experiencing the giddy heights of perfection.</p>
<p>Wearing seven-inch black stilettos, skinny jeans and a black figure-hugging T-shirt declaring “I’m Gold”, Nadia Comaneci was still turning heads in London 36 years after producing the defining image of Olympic gymnastics. <br /><br /></p>.<p>Yet the Romanian’s fashion designer had missed a trick. <br /><br />“(It says) I’m gold... but it should have had ‘I’m perfect” on the back,” she said dissolving into laughter as she looked down on the bold gold lettering in the front of her T-shirt. <br />She was spot on. “People don’t remember how many medals I won, all they remember is the history and the 1.00,” she added. <br /><br />That 1.00 signified the first perfect 10 achieved at an Olympics -- in Montreal in 1976. <br />The then 14-year-old’s soaring performance on the asymmetric bars was so exceptionally good, and so unexpected, that a scoreboard had yet to be devised that could record such perfection.<br /><br />So officials flashed up ‘1.00’. “I didn’t understand what that meant,” Comaneci, 50, said on Wednesday. “That’s all they could show. I was a little frustrated at the beginning because I thought I did better than one.” <br /><br />She certainly did. <br /><br />Her groundbreaking moment spurred hundreds of pixie Nadia clones to chase perfection. However, a judging scandal at the 2004 Olympics robbed future generations from experiencing the giddy heights of perfection.</p>