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When you go in a competition where you have 12,000 people in an arena, it's just a moment that you feel in the stomach that you can't explain. A little bit of anxiety, a little bit of panic – am I prepared good enough to handle this thing?

— Nadia Comăneci

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I decided to put a little more amplitude at every skill. I call it the ‘Nadia Touch.’ So, I think that little thing, the Nadia touch, made my routine look just a little better.

To be here to celebrate this amazing 50 years since 1976 is, I don’t know, a once-in-a-lifetime event. That’s probably what’s good about making history at 14, you get to celebrate the half-century since.

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