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I noticed that in my Mom; she never wanted to support me in areas that she aspired to, but I didn’t realize it until I was an adult and grew to understand her aspirations and her shortcomings (in her own mind). As a kid, I just felt like a failure
I'm sorry you had to go through that. I think some parents struggle to balance the desire to see their kids succeed against their own vanity and insecurity. I know my mom did and still does--even though I'm now 54 and she's 80. We ended up in completely different fields, but that never stopped her from projecting her own aspirations onto me while belittling my accomplishments.
 
My impression is that there are 2 issues. Camelia probably isn’t a good enough coach for this level. For any gymnast (has she ever coached another elite?). But she is particularly unsuited to coaching her own child. From what I have heard, there is no plan, structure or discipline to Sabrina’s training. They turn up and they do what they want. Not because Sabrina is rebelling against her mother, it’s just never been enforced by Camelia. This was the large part of the issue between the Voinea’s and the previous national team coaches, Sabrina and Camelia weren’t willing to put the work in that was expected of everyone else.
 
Could it not be more that she doesn't want Sabrina to equal or surpass her, without her? So no chance of another coach.
I definitely don’t get that impression. Camelia would love Sabrina to be Olympic champion, and probably thinks she should be. I think she also highly rates herself as a coach and as such will not entrust anyone else
 
I definitely don’t get that impression. Camelia would love Sabrina to be Olympic champion, and probably thinks she should be. I think she also highly rates herself as a coach and as such will not entrust anyone else
That makes sense to me. The other scenario people discussed would have made it difficult for Camelia or Sabrina to have compete at an Olympic level
 

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