Los Angeles 1984
At the Summer Olympics of 1984 in Los Angeles, Nadia was sent as an observer of the games. She did a lot of observing, but the most difficult observation she made was of her former coach, Béla Károlyi, mentoring another gymnast across the arena, who also happened to be an American.
Los Angeles 1984
Mary Lou Retton
The gymnast who was now under his watch, was Mary Lou Retton. Retton was born in West Virginia on 24 January, 1968. In 1976, she watched Nadia Comăneci dominate the games in Montreal and immediately felt inspired by the Romanian star. When she heard that the Károlyis were living in Houston, Texas, she moved there and formally became on of their young trainees.
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Mary Lou Retton
