Keeping To Herself
With her passion for success and focused determination, Nadia gained a reputation and was dubbed “an emotionless gymnast”. That, however, is far from being true. At the time, she was very emotional, and rightly so! However, she did not usually show her feelings and preferred to keep them to herself. Nadia’s coach, Béla Károlyi, commented that “she kept everything inside.” Nadia was actually pitiful seeing as she was just too young to cope with everything.

Keeping To Herself
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