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Nadia Comaneci's 1976 Medals to be Stripped

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Posted to Diary on Fri Aug 22, 2008 at 05:21:33 AM EST. RSS.

Superstar gymnast found to have only been 14 during her first Olympics.

Alright, so they changed the rules since then.

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Nadia

tomc.

Fri Aug 22, 2008 at 11:45:55 PM EST

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Not 14 anymore.

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Sat Aug 23, 2008 at 04:18:32 PM EST

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Nadia, still my boyhood wet dream.

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tomc.

Sat Aug 23, 2008 at 07:43:23 PM EST

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I've never gone googoo-eyes  over gymnasts - too young for my taste.  But the Brazilian women's volleyball team, that's a fantasy of epic proportions....

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Sat Aug 23, 2008 at 11:17:31 PM EST

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She was 14, I was 14, things were perfect!

Until I found out that she was actually 26 at the time I watched the footage of the '76 Olympics. Didn't quite have the grasp back then that what was on teevee wasn't "right now". Ah well.

At least it didn't go as bad as my other childhood crushes of Martina Navratilova or Ellen DeGeneres.  

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tomc.

Sat Aug 23, 2008 at 11:21:11 PM EST

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Martina and I are exactly the same age.  And although I've never met her, I've always felt confident I could ... give her a new perspective on life, so to speak.

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