Olympics Throughout the Years - '84 Los Angeles, '96 Atlanta, '04 Athens

Item Number: 201
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Description
Authentic Olympic Collectibles autographed by Bart Conner and Nadia Comaneci. Includes: Olympic Warmup jacket from 1984 games in Los Angeles, CA; 2 tickets from 1996 games in Atlanta, GA; Hat from 2004 games in Athens, Greece.
1984 Olympic Champion, Bart Conner is the only American male gymnast to win gold medals at every level of national and international competition. Conner has been a USA Champion, NCAA Champion, Pan-American Games Champion, World Champion, World Cup Champion, and an Olympic Champion. Conner was a member of three Olympic Teams in 1976, 1980 and 1984. It was in the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics where he made a dramatic comeback from his second torn biceps injury to win two gold medals, one as a member of the US team. Conner earned his second gold with a score of perfect 10 on the parallel bars. In 1991, Conner was inducted into the US Olympic Hall of Fame, and in 1997, he was inducted into the International Gymnastics Hall of Fame.
At the 1976 Olympics in Montreal, Canada, a 14-year-old Romanian dynamo captured the hearts and minds of the world with her daring and perfection. We came to know her simply as “Nadia.” By the time the 1976 Olympics ended, Comaneci had earned seven perfect tens, three gold medals, one bronze, one silver and countless fans. She appeared on the covers of TIME, NEWSWEEK and SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, all in the same week, and returned home to Romania to a heroines welcome. Four years later, at the 1980 Moscow Olympics, Comaneci earned two more gold medals and two silver to bring her Olympic total to 9 medals (5 gold, 3 silver, 1 bronze.) Even though Nadia won a total of nine Olympic medals, five of them gold, she will always be remembered at the first gymnast to score a Perfect 10, and leave her indelible mark on the history of the Olympics.
In 1996, Comaneci was inducted into the International Gymnastics Hall of Fame. In 1996, Bart Conner married Romanian Olympic Champion, Nadia Comaneci in a lavish state wedding in Bucharest, Romania. In 1999, Comaneci was honored by ABC News and Ladies Home Journal as one of the 100 Most Important Women of the 20th Century. In 2006, Conner’s Olympic Gold medal winning team was inducted into the US Olympic Hall of Fame. Today, Conner and Comaneci are involved in several charities including the Board of Directors of the Muscular Dystrophy Association. Nadia also travels to Romania often to support dozens of charities in her homeland. Today, Conner and Comaneci continue to travel the world delivering inspirational speeches, as well as promoting their charities, gymnastics, fitness and healthy lifestyles.
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