Romania first participated at the Olympic Games in 1900, with a single participant. The nation first sent a team to compete at the Games in 1924, and has only missed two editions each of the Summer Olympic Games and Winter Olympic Games since then. Notably, Romanian athletes have won a total of 293 medals, with gymnastics as the top medal-producing sport. Romania has won the second highest total number of medals (after Hungary) of nations that have never hosted the Games.
A memorable moment in Romania's Olympic history was in 1976 at the Montreal Summer Olympics when Nadia Comaneci's performance 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.
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