EDITOR’S NOTE — With the Tokyo Olympics postponed for a year due to the coronavirus pandemic, The Associated Press is looking back at the history of Summer Games.
This story was transmitted from Montreal during the 1976 Olympics, focusing on the phenomenon that was 14-year-old Romanian gymnast Nadia Comaneci.
The story is reprinted here as it ran in The Miami Herald on July 21, 1976 using the contemporary style terminology and including any published errors.
___By BOB GREEN and WILL GRIMSLEY, Associated PressMONTREAL — The very imperfect Olympics — with all its troubles and strife, fears and police forces, threats and boycotts — suddenly has been graced by perfection.It’s a tiny package, this little bit of perfection, standing only four.