Losing Béla
Sadly, this seemed to just be the beginning of some bad luck. Romania’s sporting authority decided that Béla Károlyi, Nadia’s coach since she was 6 years old, should be serving the country by coaching another up and coming young athlete. Nadia was devastated.
Overwhelmed
Suddenly, Nadia had a lot of new kinds of stress growing in her life. She was only 15 years old by now, the world had put her in the spotlight, and she was not equipped to deal with the painful family and professional changes all at once. She stopped training, she lost her motivation. It became so difficult she even ended up in the hospital with the symptoms of extremely high-stress levels.