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    Béla Károlyi, Olympic Gymnastics Coach, Dies at 82

    Willie MurphyBy Willie MurphyNovember 17, 20243 Mins Read
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    Béla Károlyi, the gymnastics coach who honed the skills of Olympians like Nadia Comăneci and Kerri Strug, has died at 82.

    USA Gymnastics introduced Károlyi died on Friday, November 15, however didn’t specify a reason behind dying.

    Károlyi began his athletic profession as a Romanian nationwide junior boxing champion and a hammer throw competitor within the 1956 Olympics, CNN reviews. On the Romania Faculty of Bodily Schooling, Károlyi began teaching the ladies’s gymnastics workforce, which is how he met gymnast Márta Erőss, who’d grow to be his spouse.

    After beginning a nationwide gymnastics faculty, Károlyi and his spouse discovered Comăneci, then 6 years outdated. Below Károlyi’s teaching, Comăneci went on to the primary good 10 after which six extra on the 1976 Olympics when she was simply 14.

    Károlyi defected to the USA in 1981, and shortly thereafter, he purchased a personal health club in Houston, Texas, dubbing the power Károlyi’s World Gymnastics. And Károlyi’s American college students rose to fame, together with Dianne Durham, the primary Black gymnast to win the all-around title on the U.S. Nationwide Championships, Mary Lou Retton, the primary U.S. gymnast to win the all-around Olympic gold medal, and Kim Zmeskal, the primary U.S. girl to win the person all-around title on the World Championships.

    In a memorable second from the 1996 Olympics, Károlyi urged an injured Strug to finish a second vault with an injured ankle en path to Staff USA’s gold medal win.

    As CNN reviews, nonetheless, Károlyi’s teaching practices got here underneath hearth during the last 20 years. One lawsuit filed by a former gymnast claimed Károlyi and his spouse struck, scratched, and berated gymnasts. The identical go well with claimed the Károlyis turned a blind eye to the abuse of gymnasts by USA Gymnastic workforce physician Larry Nassar — who was ultimately convicted of sexually assaulting minors — in change for him clearing injured athletes for competitors. The Károlyis declined to remark to CNN concerning the go well with on the time.

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    The civil go well with was mixed with different fits towards Nassar, and after Nassar’s victims reached a $380 million settlement with USA Gymnastics, the Károlyis have been launched from future litigation, CNN provides.

    Dominique Moceanu, a member of the “Magnificent Seven” U.S. girls’s gymnastic workforce that received gold on the 1996 Olympics, talked about the contradictions of Károlyi’s life in an X submit after his dying. She known as him “a person whose affect on [her] life and the game of elite gymnastics is undeniably vital” and “a posh particular person, embodying a mixture of strengths and flaws that left a long-lasting influence on these round him.”

    Moceanu added, “Whereas our relationship was fraught with issue, a few of these moments of hardship helped me forge and outline my very own path. As we bid farewell to Bela, I select to ship loving ideas to his household and family members, and honor our relationship by embracing classes discovered and striving to assist create a world the place compassion and encouragement information our actions. Could he relaxation in peace.”





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