00:00Yo no usually watch the score.
00:02I was the last gymnast of Romania
00:05at uneven bars
00:07and usually I feel like
00:11oh, it was good, maybe 9-9, 9-9-5.
00:15I didn't think about it then.
00:17And I heard noise in the arena
00:22and I turned 1.00.
00:25I don't know.
00:27Problem with the scoreboard.
00:30But the music started and I had to go to balance beam.
00:34So I didn't have too much time to think, no.
00:38It was that I did a good routine.
00:42Sometimes I did maybe better in training.
00:47But the form and the big movement
00:51was so much better than probably the gymnast before me
00:55and then there was no place to go but then.
00:59We talk after 50 years,
01:02we talk now about this 17 seconds of history for the 10.
01:08I did not know the people will be a moment to remember.
01:15Especially that we live today in a society that we forget.
01:21Oh yeah, it was good. Congratulations.
01:23Next, what's next?
01:24But I feel that many people were inspired by that
01:29and gave them hope to achieve something big.
01:34And we talk now after 50 years, which is very unique
01:39to talk about an event that big 50 years later.
01:45Yes.
01:45Even now when I say hello to my friends,
01:49they say hello, Perfect 10.
01:51It happened.
01:52I don't know if it was yes or no an advantage.
01:56Maybe advantage because for a young person,
02:02there's not much pressure.
02:05No.
02:06Maybe when you get older,
02:09like I had a little pressure when I did the second Olympic
02:12because I went to the second Olympic as the Olympic champion.
02:17So, but no, because I had eight years of gymnastics
02:22before I competed at 14.
02:26So I had a big baggage of knowledge.
02:31First of all, I am very honored that Romania said
02:36all year is Nadia year, 2026.
02:39My husband makes, made the big joke.
02:43He said, we don't get one day and Nadia get one year.
02:48So the, is the magnitude of the impact, the historic moment
02:53and also the, what's the legacy?
02:56It's very nice that we do celebration, gala,
02:58but what is going to stay behind?
03:01The new generation take the legacy and go further.
03:06In 18 of July, 2026,
03:09we will open the Nadia Comaneci Arena for gymnastics in Bucharest.
03:16So I'm very, very happy.
03:19Nothing.
03:20Nothing?
03:21No.
03:21No, because every little thing I change,
03:25they will not give me the today like this.
03:29I like today.
03:30So I, I don't have a better option to, to tell myself,
03:38if you do this way, it's better.
03:40I will say, just follow your instinct.
03:43It's going to be easy and hard, but trust, have courage.
03:50No, there was a different time.
03:53And at that time there was, for me,
03:57it was the best thing to do at the time.
04:01But it was, there was nothing, had nothing to do with the,
04:05you know, the, the regime was difficult for everybody and for me.
04:09I, I, I felt that I don't, I don't grow.
04:13I need to grow more.
04:15And there was very limited.
04:17So I left, but that, I always return.
04:21It's my life.
04:22Yeah.
04:23I mean, it's, it gives me me.
04:26I, I am who I am because of that.
04:29It's not a big difference.
04:31No, because, um, if, kids, kids start gymnastics when they are six, seven,
04:43eight years later, they are ready for the Olympics.
04:46Um, in other sports, in diving, I think it's 13, no?
04:53Mm-hm.
04:56In, uh, uh, what, what else?
04:58There was something else.
04:59In, uh, Chloe Kim, she won at 13.
05:03Yeah.
05:03So you think I was young?
05:05Yeah.
05:05Very good.
05:06Very good.
05:07Very good, uh, athletes.
05:09Uh, of course, Simone Biles, everybody.
05:11But it's not only about Simone Biles or gymnastics.
05:14It's Simone Biles, the story, the picture.
05:18Yeah.
05:19Uh, I like, uh, to see Simone and I like to see Rebecca, two different gymnasts.
05:25Acrobatic artistic, more acrobatic, uh, level is very up.
05:30Uh, I will, we will see probably a little bit of new generation this year, uh, the Rotterdam
05:38Uh-huh.
05:38World Championship.
05:40No, every, everybody is unique, no?
05:43I think so.
05:44I think today is much more important for this generation.
05:48And, uh, this is what we try to do with the, the Laureus Academy and the Sport for Good.
05:54To, uh, sport is not to be a good athlete.
05:59Sport is a must.
06:01Like education and sport.
06:04Teaches kids how to think, how to dribble, how to create, uh, options of, uh, uh, uh, navigating through, uh,
06:18how you call it, discipline, show up.
06:21Come, come and, um, uh, uh, be a friend of the, uh, uh, uh, the team, support the team.
06:29Uh, make mistakes.
06:30Feel sad.
06:31How do you get up?
06:33Uh-huh.
06:33So, it's, I think it's must right now because there's many, many more distractions for kids.
06:39Bad ones.
06:40And that's what sports is important.
06:43Uh, I will tell her, I'm very proud of you.
06:46Uh, go with the instinct.
06:50Be courageous.
06:52Don't give up.
06:53It will be hard, but will be worth it.
06:57No!
06:58No!
06:58No!
06:59No!
06:59No!
07:00No!
07:00No!
07:02No!
07:02No!
07:02Gracias.
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