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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.
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]
Though Martha Karolyi retired after the Rio Olympics in 2016, the couple planned to stay involved in the sport by having the ranch serve as the national team training center.
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]
Bela and Marta Karolyi watch from the sidelines at the Karolyi Ranch training center in 2011. ... Karolyi’s triumphant career also was marred by allegations of abuse at his famed Karolyi Ranch ...
Since 2000, USA Gymnastics has used a 40-acre ranch outside Huntsville, Texas, owned by gymnastics coaches Bela and Marta Karolyi for monthly training sessions and various team camps. In 2001, it ...
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.
Eberle took up gymnastics aged 7 following her mother. At the time she was coached by Judita Varkony and Pavel Rosenfeld, and later was trained by Béla Károlyi and Márta Károlyi, before they defected from Romania to the United States in 1981.