New Success
Soon, Retton’s training with Béla and Márta Károlyi paid off. At the Olympic Games in Los Angeles in 1984, Retton became the first female athlete not from Eastern Europe to take home the individual all-around gold. Impressively, she was up against Romania’s Ecaterina Szabo at the competition.
New Success
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Keeping Distance
Nadia couldn’t stop staring at the American team at the Olympic Games. Her heart was tearing up not because of Mary Lou Retton but because of her former coach, Béla. Nadia received strict orders not to speak to the man at all. Nadia felt her suffering, and she though she had to escape from Romania.
Keeping Distance