A New Star
It was not long before Mary Lou Retton’s training with the Károlyis’ began to pay off, becoming the first female not from Eastern Europe to ever win the individual all-around gold at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games. Not only that, but she was competing against the Romanian competitor Ecaterina Szabo…
A New Star
Strict Orders
Nadia was mesmerized by the American team throughout the Olympic Games, though it wasn’t Mary Lou Retton she couldn’t keep her eyes off, it was her former coach that was giving her heartache. Her mentor for so many years, where he was in front of her, yet she was under strict orders and had been forbidden to talk to him at all. She started feeling the need to get out of what had become a very restrictive Romania for her.
Strict Orders
