The AA Champ from 1972, Tourischeva, was Olympic, World, and European AA Champ (only Larissa Latynina, Vera Caslavska, Tourischeva, Elena Shushunova, and Lilia Podkopayeva have accompliished this; and to be fair to non-Europeans, Simone Biles has accomplished the USA equivalent to this, and if the extremely stupid score truncating hadn't reared its ugly head, Nastia Liukin also would have accomplished this). Olga, despite her incredible fame and her guts, never won a major title such as those I described above. But at the 1972 Olympics when it came time for Event Finals, she was the star, wining 2 Golds and 1 Silver, just narrowly beating out East Germany's Karin Janz who won 2 Golds and 1 Bronze. Tourischeva got 1 Silver and 1 Bronze.
Better? No, the sport has evolved and changed. But just because Comaneci did not have springs underneath the floor exercise when she was competing, does not mean she was inferior.
Nadia took the standard of the day and pushed it significantly further, and did so with incredible technical precision.
Edited to add: It's the first line of your post that I take most issue with. While technology, nutrition, and financial resources have changed all sports significantly, it does not make today's athletes "better". It means they have had more opportunities to improve.
It's really a different sport. I competed in gymnastics during the time before a lot of these changes were made--for me, the cowboy tuck was a watershed and led to a lot of the developments you're talking about, like spring floors and specialized vaulting horses.
The sport changed so that people who didn't really know it (like Quizmaster) could enjoy it more because it was more like an acrobat show and less like the precision body movement sport it had been before. Formerly, it was more important to hit exact body positions--legs together, straight, stuck landings--than to engage in risky but showy moves. Eventually even the scoring changed completely to favor height and rotations over form.
Biles would have lost in 1976. She is sloppy by the standards of that day (steps out of bounds, uncompleted rotations, hops and steps). The floor she uses is a different apparatus than Nadia's. She's the GOAT at 2010s gymnastics, not 1970s gymnastics.
The IOC stripped Andreea of her gold medal because she tested positive for a banned substance (a cold medicine, not exactly something that would help one's performance.) The gold then went to the athlete who originally finished in second place.
Curious fact: In Tokyo 2020, Brazilians discovered that Daiane dos Santos doesn't have an Olympic Medal when Rebeca Andrade became the first Brazilian for win a medal in Women's Gymnastics in the Olympics.
Olga won many medals, including several gold, at the '72 and '76 Olympics; however, this quiz is specifically for the all around competition. Though Olga was expected to take gold in the all around in '72, mistakes during the competition meant she did not medal at all.
Here's Comaneci's floor routine from 1976. Which is amazing and impressive.
But then watch Biles from 2016, and your jaw will drop.
There's simply no comparison.
Nadia took the standard of the day and pushed it significantly further, and did so with incredible technical precision.
Edited to add: It's the first line of your post that I take most issue with. While technology, nutrition, and financial resources have changed all sports significantly, it does not make today's athletes "better". It means they have had more opportunities to improve.
The sport changed so that people who didn't really know it (like Quizmaster) could enjoy it more because it was more like an acrobat show and less like the precision body movement sport it had been before. Formerly, it was more important to hit exact body positions--legs together, straight, stuck landings--than to engage in risky but showy moves. Eventually even the scoring changed completely to favor height and rotations over form.
Biles would have lost in 1976. She is sloppy by the standards of that day (steps out of bounds, uncompleted rotations, hops and steps). The floor she uses is a different apparatus than Nadia's. She's the GOAT at 2010s gymnastics, not 1970s gymnastics.
84 Alternate Olympics - Olga Mostepanova