Deseret News archives highlight Nadia Comaneci’s perfect 10 and Salt Lake City’s 1924 population surge

The Deseret News revisited a landmark moment in Olympic history when 14‑year‑old Romanian gymnast Nadia Comaneci earned the first perfect 10.0 score on the uneven bars at the 1976 Montreal Games, later repeating the feat five more times and winning three gold medals. Her breakthrough changed gymnastics worldwide; she later defected to the United States, married fellow Olympian Bart Conner, and has been active in humanitarian causes.

In a separate archival feature, the newspaper reported on the 1924 U.S. Census which listed 79 American cities with populations over 100,000. Salt Lake City was estimated at 128,564 residents, ranking it the 55th‑largest city in the nation at the time. Founded in 1847 and becoming the territorial, then state, capital, the city has grown to a metropolitan population of over 1.2 million by 2020, underscoring its long‑term regional significance.