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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.
Her adoption was closed, but her birth parents' names were on some documents. During the 1996 Olympics, the cameras cut to the parents of gymnast Dominique Moceanu and the Brickers made the connection. When she was 16, Bricker asked her adoptive parents if they knew anything about her birth family and they told her about Dominique.
Béla and Márta Károlyi have trained nine Olympic champions, fifteen world champions, sixteen European medalists and many U.S. national champions, including Comăneci, Mary Lou Retton, Betty Okino, Kerri Strug, Teodora Ungureanu, Phoebe Mills, Kim Zmeskal, and Dominique Moceanu. [3]
Olympian Dominique Moceanu's younger sister is ready for the dance floor. Jennifer Bricker is an acrobat and aerialist training heavily to become a dancer. That's impressive in its own right, but ...
Fast forward to now, and Moceanu, who at 14 was the youngest member of that 1996 gold-medal squad, is still involved in gymnastics. She’s […] The post Q&A With USA Gold-Medal Winning Gymnast ...
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Some of his former athletes including Kristie Phillips, Dominique Moceanu, and Erica Stokes have publicly said that Károlyi was verbally and psychologically abusive during workouts. Károlyi's constant critical remarks about weight and body type were said to drive some gymnasts to develop eating disorders and low self-esteem. [ 24 ]
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