Nadia Comăneci indicate that she had indeed received a 10. During the remainder of the Montreal Games, Comăneci earned six additional tens. She won gold medals for the individual all-around, the balance beam and uneven bars. She also won a bronze for the floor exercise and a silver as part of the team all-around. Soviet gymnast Nellie Kim was her main rival during the Montreal Olympics; Kim became the second gymnast to receive a perfect ten for her performance on the vault. Comăneci also took over the spotlight from Olga Korbut, who had been the darling of the 1972 Munich Games. Comăneci's
Liu Tingting (gymnast) by 19-year-old Tan Jiaxin, who in 2014 and 2015 had already won two team all-around silver medals at the World Championships. At the 2017 World Cup in Melbourne, Liu qualified first on balance beam and second on uneven bars and floor exercise. She went on to place first on uneven bars and balance beam and third on floor exercise. At the 2018 World Championships, Liu qualified in eighth place on balance beam, barely making the finals after putting her hand down on a front tuck, before winning gold with both the highest difficulty (6.3) and highest execution scores (8.233) of