Golgotha Files Abuse Complaint with FRG
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In looking for these comments, I discovered to my shock and amazement that Daria Nagornaya had sent Ruby her congratulations. Which is surprising as I’ve never known her to have a nice thing to say about anyone.Oh dear........
Mama Voinea's husband thought it was a good time to enter the fracas and has been trashing Ruby Evans on Instagram today
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@MaryClare You made me think really hard about the name Nagornaya for a second there.
(For those who also got stuck: Former world bars champ Daria Spiridonova married former world AA champ Nakita Nagornyy)
(For those who also got stuck: Former world bars champ Daria Spiridonova married former world AA champ Nakita Nagornyy)
Yes, sorry. Daria Spiridonova.
No one tell Reddit, they’ll get it into their heads that there’s some sort of blond conspiracy going on. Especially since Angelina Melnikova is also seemingly a big Ruby Evans fan!
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Such an interesting dichotomy: they don't want anybody outshining Voinea, but the Voineas aren't doing the work to stand out and above the rest.
The feminist in me loves a storyline where there is a “Mr. Voinea” inserting himself in a situation to create more drama. #equalityOh dear........
Mama Voinea's husband thought it was a good time to enter the fracas and has been trashing Ruby Evans on Instagram today
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Gymnastic posted the following on Facebook:
A former gymnast accuses coach Camelia Voinea of years of violent abuse, saying she beat girls with a rubber whip, screamed at them, and left them terrified. “I’m 28 years old… but I’m still afraid of her,” she says, recalling teammates who “wet themselves from fear.” The athlete describes lasting trauma, depression, and suicidal thoughts. Voinea denies all accusations, calling them “expired cases” and insisting that “anyone can say anything about anyone.”
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A former gymnast from the Farul Constanța club, where Camelia Voinea coached after retiring from competition, has made shocking revelations about her training methods. In an exclusive interview with GOLAZO.ro, Camelia Voinea’s former student accuses her of physical and psychological abuse that drove her to suicidal thoughts.
GOLAZO.ro has verified the gymnast’s identity, the club where she trained, and the years she spent in gymnastics.
Former gymnast: “She dropped me from an apparatus”
The former gymnast’s trauma is evident from her very first words. After once again insisting that her name not be mentioned, she confides:
“I’m still afraid of Camelia Voinea, even now. I’m 28 years old, I’ve moved abroad, and maybe people will laugh, but I’m still afraid of her. That’s how deeply traumatized I was.”
Her childhood dream of becoming a gymnast began when she was four and a half.
“It was 2001, and I watched on TV with my parents — our great gymnasts, like Andreea Răducan, Maria Olaru, Simona Amânar. We went to Constanța, to the Farul club, and I ended up in Mrs. Camelia Voinea’s group. After eight years of torment, when I was 12, I didn’t want to do gymnastics anymore. The reason? Camelia Voinea.
I suffered trauma because she became very violent with us — increasingly violent. And I also had an accident. Mrs. Voinea wasn’t paying attention to me, and I got hurt quite badly. That’s when I developed a fear of that apparatus. I wouldn’t want you to mention which one, because she’ll know who I am. And as I said, I’m still scared…”
When did the physical and psychological abuse described by the former gymnast begin?
“From about age four to seven, when you don’t go to competitions, everything seems fine. You feel like you’re having fun — it doesn’t seem like anything’s wrong. But after that, once we started competing, the torment began. Insults everywhere, verbal aggression, shouting. But that wasn’t even the worst part.”
“She used to beat us with a whip”
The 2000s — though Romanian gymnastics was no longer in the era of Béla and Márta Károlyi — were still marked by abuse in the sport. The former student of Camelia Voinea accuses her of horrific treatment.
“She somehow got hold of a whip — I don’t know from where. It was made of rubber or a similar material. If you didn’t perform an element correctly — whack! — she’d hit you with the whip on your legs or arms. She hit us like animals… We were 8, 9, 10 years old, and I can still remember those blows as if it were yesterday.
I had bruises, mostly on my legs. I’d tell my mother that I wanted to wash myself so she wouldn’t see the marks. I’d quickly put on tights, and that was it. If she noticed something, I’d lie and say I fell off the beam,” she continued in her testimony to GOLAZO.ro.
“I couldn’t sleep, I couldn’t rest, I’d start shaking for no reason. I was always terrified. She threatened that if we said anything at home, things would get even worse.
One of my teammates told her mother, who then came to the gym to confront Camelia. She told the mother, ‘I just slapped her once, just a little.’ She was very good at hiding what was happening to us in the gym. And people believed her.”
“We wet ourselves from fear”
The beatings that the GOLAZO.ro source says she and her teammates endured were chilling in their cruelty.
“We were terrified of being sent to the locker room, because that’s where she beat us. If one of us made a mistake on an apparatus, she’d take her into the locker room, but she’d make the rest of us wait outside, lined up in the hallway — so we could hear what was happening inside. To listen to her beating the girl, to scare us all.”
When asked if Camelia Voinea ever hit her in other ways besides the rubber whip, the source replied:
“It sounds strange, but I considered myself one of the lucky ones. I was beaten, yes, but I saw things even worse happen with my own eyes. She punched some of my teammates in the head. And that waiting in the hallway, knowing it would soon be your turn for a ‘dose’ of beating… it left deep marks on my mind. Some girls literally wet themselves from fear.”
“I had suicidal thoughts”
How does a 10- or 12-year-old child endure such an environment — and what marks does it leave?
“There were years of depression, years of anxiety. I developed eating disorders because of it. I went through periods of suicidal thoughts. The trauma she left me with will last a lifetime, not just those eight years I spent there. I’ve been to therapists in Romania and in England.
I remember thinking about jumping off a bridge — the Old Bridge, near City Mall. I couldn’t swim, but that would have ended everything, right? I actually got there, but someone passed by and asked if I was okay. I spoke with him, he took me to the hospital, and my grandparents and uncle came and took me home.”
Why speak out now, after so many years, even anonymously?
“I saw what Denisa said, and it gave me courage. I can’t explain in words what it means to be 28 years old and still feel fear toward someone. I want people to know who Camelia Voinea really is — not the person she pretends to be on television. I could have achieved more in gymnastics if I’d had another coach. I was one step away from joining the national team in Deva, but she didn’t let us go.”
“My entire generation quit”
Why would a child endure such treatment from anyone? The source explains:
“I come from a modest family. My mother wanted me to have a future, so when she saw I liked gymnastics, she enrolled me at the club in Constanța. I was caught between family pressure, my love for gymnastics, and Camelia Voinea’s beatings. I was eight or nine years old — how could I know what to do? My mother realized something was wrong when, at twelve, I’d leave for training and then turn back home out of fear.”
The former athlete insists she wasn’t the only one. Several of her peers quit gymnastics altogether because of Voinea’s physical and psychological abuse.
“All the girls from my generation quit. They couldn’t stand the beatings and humiliation anymore. Because she did that too. I remember falling off the beam at a competition. That evening we all went out to eat. The other girls got what they wanted — schnitzel, fries — and I got a small portion of Greek salad. She told me I didn’t deserve anything else because I wasn’t good enough. I felt humiliated. Sometimes I wonder what my life would have looked like if I hadn’t met her…”
Camelia Voinea: “Now we’re seeing these expired cases”
GOLAZO.ro also contacted Camelia Voinea for comment on the accusations.
“There’s no such thing in gymnastics — whips and things like that! Now people come up with these expired cases and start accusing X or Y. Anyone can say anything about anyone. Believe me, I never took a slap from my own coaches — and I lived through communism. I’ve kept quiet until now precisely to gather more information about the people who’ve slandered me,”
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A former gymnast accuses coach Camelia Voinea of years of violent abuse, saying she beat girls with a rubber whip, screamed at them, and left them terrified. “I’m 28 years old… but I’m still afraid of her,” she says, recalling teammates who “wet themselves from fear.” The athlete describes lasting trauma, depression, and suicidal thoughts. Voinea denies all accusations, calling them “expired cases” and insisting that “anyone can say anything about anyone.”
***
A former gymnast from the Farul Constanța club, where Camelia Voinea coached after retiring from competition, has made shocking revelations about her training methods. In an exclusive interview with GOLAZO.ro, Camelia Voinea’s former student accuses her of physical and psychological abuse that drove her to suicidal thoughts.
GOLAZO.ro has verified the gymnast’s identity, the club where she trained, and the years she spent in gymnastics.
Former gymnast: “She dropped me from an apparatus”
The former gymnast’s trauma is evident from her very first words. After once again insisting that her name not be mentioned, she confides:
“I’m still afraid of Camelia Voinea, even now. I’m 28 years old, I’ve moved abroad, and maybe people will laugh, but I’m still afraid of her. That’s how deeply traumatized I was.”
Her childhood dream of becoming a gymnast began when she was four and a half.
“It was 2001, and I watched on TV with my parents — our great gymnasts, like Andreea Răducan, Maria Olaru, Simona Amânar. We went to Constanța, to the Farul club, and I ended up in Mrs. Camelia Voinea’s group. After eight years of torment, when I was 12, I didn’t want to do gymnastics anymore. The reason? Camelia Voinea.
I suffered trauma because she became very violent with us — increasingly violent. And I also had an accident. Mrs. Voinea wasn’t paying attention to me, and I got hurt quite badly. That’s when I developed a fear of that apparatus. I wouldn’t want you to mention which one, because she’ll know who I am. And as I said, I’m still scared…”
When did the physical and psychological abuse described by the former gymnast begin?
“From about age four to seven, when you don’t go to competitions, everything seems fine. You feel like you’re having fun — it doesn’t seem like anything’s wrong. But after that, once we started competing, the torment began. Insults everywhere, verbal aggression, shouting. But that wasn’t even the worst part.”
“She used to beat us with a whip”
The 2000s — though Romanian gymnastics was no longer in the era of Béla and Márta Károlyi — were still marked by abuse in the sport. The former student of Camelia Voinea accuses her of horrific treatment.
“She somehow got hold of a whip — I don’t know from where. It was made of rubber or a similar material. If you didn’t perform an element correctly — whack! — she’d hit you with the whip on your legs or arms. She hit us like animals… We were 8, 9, 10 years old, and I can still remember those blows as if it were yesterday.
I had bruises, mostly on my legs. I’d tell my mother that I wanted to wash myself so she wouldn’t see the marks. I’d quickly put on tights, and that was it. If she noticed something, I’d lie and say I fell off the beam,” she continued in her testimony to GOLAZO.ro.
“I couldn’t sleep, I couldn’t rest, I’d start shaking for no reason. I was always terrified. She threatened that if we said anything at home, things would get even worse.
One of my teammates told her mother, who then came to the gym to confront Camelia. She told the mother, ‘I just slapped her once, just a little.’ She was very good at hiding what was happening to us in the gym. And people believed her.”
“We wet ourselves from fear”
The beatings that the GOLAZO.ro source says she and her teammates endured were chilling in their cruelty.
“We were terrified of being sent to the locker room, because that’s where she beat us. If one of us made a mistake on an apparatus, she’d take her into the locker room, but she’d make the rest of us wait outside, lined up in the hallway — so we could hear what was happening inside. To listen to her beating the girl, to scare us all.”
When asked if Camelia Voinea ever hit her in other ways besides the rubber whip, the source replied:
“It sounds strange, but I considered myself one of the lucky ones. I was beaten, yes, but I saw things even worse happen with my own eyes. She punched some of my teammates in the head. And that waiting in the hallway, knowing it would soon be your turn for a ‘dose’ of beating… it left deep marks on my mind. Some girls literally wet themselves from fear.”
“I had suicidal thoughts”
How does a 10- or 12-year-old child endure such an environment — and what marks does it leave?
“There were years of depression, years of anxiety. I developed eating disorders because of it. I went through periods of suicidal thoughts. The trauma she left me with will last a lifetime, not just those eight years I spent there. I’ve been to therapists in Romania and in England.
I remember thinking about jumping off a bridge — the Old Bridge, near City Mall. I couldn’t swim, but that would have ended everything, right? I actually got there, but someone passed by and asked if I was okay. I spoke with him, he took me to the hospital, and my grandparents and uncle came and took me home.”
Why speak out now, after so many years, even anonymously?
“I saw what Denisa said, and it gave me courage. I can’t explain in words what it means to be 28 years old and still feel fear toward someone. I want people to know who Camelia Voinea really is — not the person she pretends to be on television. I could have achieved more in gymnastics if I’d had another coach. I was one step away from joining the national team in Deva, but she didn’t let us go.”
“My entire generation quit”
Why would a child endure such treatment from anyone? The source explains:
“I come from a modest family. My mother wanted me to have a future, so when she saw I liked gymnastics, she enrolled me at the club in Constanța. I was caught between family pressure, my love for gymnastics, and Camelia Voinea’s beatings. I was eight or nine years old — how could I know what to do? My mother realized something was wrong when, at twelve, I’d leave for training and then turn back home out of fear.”
The former athlete insists she wasn’t the only one. Several of her peers quit gymnastics altogether because of Voinea’s physical and psychological abuse.
“All the girls from my generation quit. They couldn’t stand the beatings and humiliation anymore. Because she did that too. I remember falling off the beam at a competition. That evening we all went out to eat. The other girls got what they wanted — schnitzel, fries — and I got a small portion of Greek salad. She told me I didn’t deserve anything else because I wasn’t good enough. I felt humiliated. Sometimes I wonder what my life would have looked like if I hadn’t met her…”
Camelia Voinea: “Now we’re seeing these expired cases”
GOLAZO.ro also contacted Camelia Voinea for comment on the accusations.
“There’s no such thing in gymnastics — whips and things like that! Now people come up with these expired cases and start accusing X or Y. Anyone can say anything about anyone. Believe me, I never took a slap from my own coaches — and I lived through communism. I’ve kept quiet until now precisely to gather more information about the people who’ve slandered me,”
„Am vrut să mă sinucid” / Mărturie tulburătoare: o fostă gimnastă o acuză pe Camelia Voinea, antrenoarea și mama Sabrinei Voinea
A fostă gimnastă antrenată de Camelia Voinea în anii 2000, la clubul Farul Constanța, o acuză pe aceasta de abuzuri fizice și psihice.
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This person posted something very similar on reddit a few years ago. Interesting how a celebrity speaking out can change things and draw press interest.
I am befuddled by the Voinea defence of "how could anyone possibly imagine such a thing?! in gymnastics?!" I mean, there used to be actual footage on YouTube of Romania's podium training in 1985 featuring Octavian Belu smacking her on the head for disrupting Szabo's floor routine. (Cannot find it now).
I am befuddled by the Voinea defence of "how could anyone possibly imagine such a thing?! in gymnastics?!" I mean, there used to be actual footage on YouTube of Romania's podium training in 1985 featuring Octavian Belu smacking her on the head for disrupting Szabo's floor routine. (Cannot find it now).
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The FRG is run by a man who was at her wedding in a prominent role as something which translates as Godfather of the wedding.
She (and Sabrina) campaigned heavily for him in the election for FRG president in Jan-Mar this year.
We’ll see what he does I guess, especially as this article calls him out for ignoring Denisa’s complaints before World championships, but I’m not betting on a strong response, let alone any kind of censure or ban.
She (and Sabrina) campaigned heavily for him in the election for FRG president in Jan-Mar this year.
We’ll see what he does I guess, especially as this article calls him out for ignoring Denisa’s complaints before World championships, but I’m not betting on a strong response, let alone any kind of censure or ban.
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