Texas Monthly 1991 Karolyi article

[RedBirdie]

Texas Monthly is digitizing their archives. From December 1991:

“I Have Made Their Lives Miserable”

Young girls who want to win an Olympic gymnastics medal have to pay the price, and Bela Karolyi makes sure that they don’t get off cheap.

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Texas Monthly allows non-subscribers 2 free articles a month.

 

[Laura722]

I’ve read that one a while back. Last night, I saw Gymcastic post an interview with a Romanian journalist who wrote a book about Nadia (“Nadia and The Secret Police”). I haven’t read the book, but apparently, that whole story of finding Nadia on a school playground was made-up by Bela.

 

[RedBirdie]

Bela told almost as many lies as George Santos.

 

[MaryClare]

Yeah, it was made up. Nadia was already in gymnastics training in a sports school

 

[JDB]

Throwback to Bela pretending he remembered anything about Britney Spears when she attended a Karolyi Ranch summer camp: