Béla Károlyi

Béla Károlyi (born September 13, 1942) is a Romanian gymnastics coach of Hungarian descent. In his early coaching career, working with his wife Márta; he developed the Romanian centralised training system for gymnastics. One of his earliest protégés was Nadia Comăneci, the first gymnast to be awarded a perfect score. Living under the dictatorship of Nicolae Ceausescu, Károlyi frequently clashed with Romanian officials and the Károlyis subsequently defected to the United States in 1981.
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