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The Károlyis' daughter, Andrea, was the nutritionist for the team. At the 2012 Olympics , after Aly Raisman was given a score of 14.966 in the balance beam final , which put her a tenth of a point behind Cătălina Ponor of Romania, Károlyi requested a video review.
Béla Károlyi (Hungarian: [ˈbeːlɒ ˈkaːroji]; September 13, 1942 – November 15, 2024) was a Romanian and American gymnastics coach of Hungarian origin.Early in his coaching career he developed the Romanian centralized training system for gymnastics.
Despite not speaking any English, and with their young daughter still in Romania, they decided to defect, walking away from the team hotel in March 1981. ... Though Martha Karolyi retired after ...
Dominique Helena Moceanu (/ m oʊ ˈ tʃ iː ɑː n uː /, moh-CHEE-ah-noo; Romanian: [moˈtʃe̯anu]; born September 30, 1981) [1] is a retired [2] American gymnast.She was a member of the gold medal-winning United States women's gymnastics team, the "Magnificent Seven", at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta.
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 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 ...
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.
Gymnastics career; Discipline: Women's artistic gymnastics: Country represented Romania Years on national team: 1970–1984 ()College team: Politehnica University of Bucharest