Portrait of Béla Károlyi

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Béla Károlyi

Gymnastics

Olympic gymnastics development

Béla Károlyi was a Romanian-American gymnastics coach who worked with Nadia Comăneci before building a coaching career in the United States. He helped shape elite women's gymnastics through centralised, intensive training systems. His legacy also includes sustained scrutiny of the demanding culture and treatment of athletes within those systems.

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