Thursday, June 17, 2010

Question - 508

Whats the significance of the score?

Answer: Nadia Comaneci's perfect score was displayed as 1.00 since the scoreboard wasn't equipped to display a 10.0. If I had waited a couple of days, I could have had a nice connect between this and the Isner-Mahut scoreboard. Akshay, Mihir, RV, Jaggi, Hirak, anon, Mekie, v. chandrashekar, Jamie, Rajesh K, Karthik, Arvind, Ramji, escapist, tsp, anon, Mainak, Manix, Vetti, Ramki, nice try, Kaushik, Iam, NJ, Firebringer, Shravan and Anand got it. Well done all.

28 comments:

Akshay said...

nadia comaneci's perfect score was displayed as 1.00

Mihir said...

Nadia Komaneci. First gymnast to score a perfect 10.0. The scoreboard couldn't show it. They used 1.0 instead. Quote from Wikipedia:

At the age of 14, Comăneci became one of the stars of the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal. During the team portion of the competition, her routine on the uneven bars was scored at a 10.0. It was the first time in modern Olympic gymnastics history that the score had ever been awarded. The scoreboards were not even equipped to display scores of 10.0—so Nadia's perfect marks were reported on the boards as 1.00 instead

RV said...

perfect ten by Nadia Comăneci; The score machines weren;t designed to display 10 hence showing 1

matti tapaninen said...

Is this Olga Korbut, sovjet gymnast, in 1972 Olympics? After her performance the audience began to whistle and shout vulgar remarks at the judges in disapproval, believing her score to be too low.

Jaggi said...

Nadia Comaneci scoring a perfect 10. Scoreboards were not equipped to display scores of 10.0

Hirak Parikh said...

Nadia's perfect 10 at the Montreal Games. 1.0 was cause 10 could not be displayed.

Anonymous said...

FIRST PERFECT 10

mekie said...

Nadia's perfect score - however, the scoreboard couldn't display a perfect 10.

Anonymous said...

nadia comaneci scored perfect 10,but the score board was not equipped,and showed 1.0




-----------------v.chandrashekar

Jamie said...

Nadia Comăneci dazzled the world by attaining the first ever perfect 10 score in gymnastics.

Anonymous said...

Nadia Comencoi's perfect score is reported a little less than perfect.

-Rajesh K

Karthik said...

Nadia's perfect 10. The scoreboard didn't anticipate that it would ever have to display 10.00 so it shows 1.00 instead

Arvind said...

Nadia Comaneci. first ever perfect 10. they had no space for the second digit.

Unknown said...

Nadia Comaneci

escapist said...

nadia comanceva getting a perfect 10 but in those times the digital board could display a max. of 9.99...her 10 was displayed as 1.00

tsp said...

Nadia Commenci's perfect 10 blew the brains out of the scoreboard that showed that figure.

Anonymous said...

Nadia's perfect 10

Mainak said...

Nadia Comaneci with the first perfect 10 in an Olympic gymnastic event?

Anonymous said...

Nadia Comăneci and the first ever 10. The scoreboard was not designed to display such a score and hence the 1.0!

Vetti said...

The scoreboards couldnt display a perfect 10 so they displayed 1.0 when Nadia Comaneci scored a perfect 10. 073 I'm assuming was her jersey no.

Ramki said...

Nadia Comaneci's perfect 10! Sad buggers didn't make arrangements for 2 digit scores back then..

nice try said...

nadia comaneci's perfect 10 -- but the scoreboard didnt have enough digits to show that

Kaushik said...

Nadia Comeneci and her perfect 10

Iam said...

Nadia Komanechi Perfect 10
Score boards were modified to show 10.0 after that

NJ said...

It's the first time someone (Nadia Comaneci) scored a 10 in an olympic gymnastics event.

Firebringer said...

Nadia Comaneci's perfect 10. The scoreboard was incapable of showing it, so it showed 1.00

Shravan said...

Nadia Comaneci scored a perfect 10 during the 1976 Olympics but the scoreboards were not even equipped to display 10. Instead they showed 1.00

Anand said...

perfect 10 - nadia comaneci