- Joy
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Football
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- Nov 07, 2020
In football, you're dealing with grown men. In gymnastics, you're dealing with prepubescent teenage girls. There's a huge difference. At that age, you're not confident enough to have a voice.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't mind sacrifice. I don't mind discipline. But a good coach allows people to blossom. I've seen that. I didn't have it.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
The time leading up to the 1996 Olympics was the most demanding and stressful of my career. The sport I had loved so much was slowly becoming a nightmare as I trained with Bela and Marta Karolyi the summer before the Olympics.
- Joy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was so afraid to make mistakes and get reprimanded by my coaches that the joy of the sport started slipping away.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd challenge myself to see how long I could go without a fall - on beam, I once went three weeks.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was raised into the Romanian Orthodox culture by my parents, and most notably my mother, who is a profoundly religious and spiritual woman.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
In Romania, of course, gymnastics is among the most popular sports, and my parents had a dream of escaping the Ceausescu regime and giving their child a better life. So they came to the United States and put me in gymnastics.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
For as long as I can remember, my mother went to church every single Sunday. She was born and raised in Romania as a person with limited means, and faith was something she could rely on - something that was free.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Since my mother is an extremely devoted Christian Orthodox woman, she prayed a great deal and taught me how to pray.
- Battle
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you have traveled the world, won Olympic gold, and gone through a very public court battle against your parents all by the age of seventeen, surprises don't come easy.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a competitive gymnast, my life has always been filled with challenges that would ultimately define my future. From day one, I was taught to be prepared at all costs.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents, Romanian immigrants, struggled to provide me a better life than the ones they had left in their homeland. They worked hard to give me every opportunity in life, and once I showed natural talent as a young gymnast, they spent every last penny on my training.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
Standing on the podium at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta and receiving a gold medal was the crowning jewel in a successful gymnastics career and, most certainly, the confirmation that my parents' sacrifices were not in vain.
- Chaos
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can barely recall a single holiday when my father didn't make a scene or create some kind of chaos. We were always walking on eggshells.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was awkward-looking with huge brown eyes, dark brown, pencil-straight hair styled into an old-school Romanian bowl haircut from the 1980s. And I was very, very small. I was always the tiniest kid on my street and in my classes at school... The gym was the one place I didn't have to worry about feeling awkward for being so petite.
- Hard Work
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- Nov 07, 2020