Michelle Obama remembers watching Nadia Comaneci score a perfect 10, a first in the history of Olympic gymnastics, and thinking, I can be a gymnast.
It was Montreal.
It was 1976.
It was Chicago's South Side, where a 12-year-old girl rapt before a TV had not yet grown into the 5-foot, 11-inch woman she would become. Chicago Tribune report
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