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In 2021, the Karolyi ranch was sold to a lumber company. The Karolyis retreated from the public eye after the USA Gymnastics sex abuse scandal and their whereabouts are unknown, with some speculating that they returned to Romania. [8] Her husband Béla died on November 15, 2024, at the age of 82. [9] [10]
Some gymnasts also said that the strict discipline and conditions at the ranch made them feel inhibited from reporting Nassar's abuses. As a result of the scandal, in July 2017 USA Gymnastics canceled its plans to buy Karolyi Ranch. [33] In January 2018 USA Gymnastics announced they were cutting ties with Karolyi Ranch altogether. [34]
Bela Karolyi, the legendary gymnastics coach who coached stars including Mary Lou Retton and Nadia Comaneci to victory at multiple Olympic games, has died.He was 82. USA Gymnastics confirmed in a ...
Martha Karolyi succeeded him and, under her direction, the U.S. women became an international powerhouse. Despite Bela Karolyi's love of the spotlight, he was content to step back and let Martha ...
Karolyi and wife Martha trained multiple Olympic gold medalists and world champions in the U.S. and Romania, including Nadia Comaneci and Mary Lou Retton. “A big impact and influence on my life,” Comaneci, who was just 14 when Karolyi coached her to gold for Romania at the 1976 Montreal Olympics, posted on Instagram.
Bela Karolyi, the legendary and controversial Romanian American gymnastics coach who helped lead Mary Lou Retton, Nadia Comaneci and Kerri Strug to Olympic gold, has died, USA Gymnastics announced.
The USA Gymnastics National Team Training Center at Karolyi Ranch or simply Karolyi Ranch in unincorporated Walker County, Texas, southeast of Huntsville, was a gymnastics camp facility which was the site of the main training center for the United States women's national gymnastics team, located 70 miles (110 km) north of Houston within the Sam Houston National Forest.
Bela Karolyi, gymnastics coach who mentored Nadia and Mary Lou and courted controversy, dies at 82; Gymnastics coach Bela Karolyi, who trained multiple Olympic gold medalists and world champions, has died at 82; Behind Robertson and Washington, Baylor wins fourth straight, beating West Virginia 49-35