Raise Your Cups
A memorable performance passed and it was time for her to receive her award. A silver cup was awarded to a male gymnast and another to a female gymnast. They didn’t know each-other, but their lives would intertwine more than they could ever have imagined.
Raise Your Cups
Just A Kiss
As the two gymnasts posed for the flashes of the news photographers, an excited journalist shouted out to the American athlete: “Kiss for the cameras, please!” Comăneci, then 14 years old, and Bart Conner, 18 at the time, seemed to look quite cute together. Not wasting any time, Conner landed a peck on Nadia’s cheek. The photograph snapped at the opportune moment created a positive hype around the young Romanian in the hearts of Americans.
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Just A Kiss
