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After retiring from competition in 1981, I did exhibitions and coached.

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I come from a communist country. We learned nothing of lawyers, nothing about rights.

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I think a lot of people don't actually know me. They think, 'She's like this,' or, 'She's like that.' They say I have no emotions - I do, but you couldn't see them then. I had to keep them inside.

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Gymnastics is so huge in the Olympics. There are a lot of fans who want to see more.

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I wasn't allowed to leave Romania. That made me mad. You just want your freedom. You want your space. You want opportunity.

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When I got married in Bucharest, there were 10,000 people on the street. People didn't go to work that day. It was emotional to see how people care about you. I didn't expect that.

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I like Oklahoma. It's a quiet place. You can work, and nobody disturbs you.

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See, when I went to the Olympics in '76, the gymnastics people knew that I was good, but everybody else, after I won, everybody was like, 'Where's she coming from? Who is she? What is Romania?'

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I made the cover of 'Sports Illustrated,' 'Newsweek' and 'Time' all in one week, and I didn't even know what that meant.

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In the '80 Olympics... people expected me to win. I was good enough to win, and I made a mistake and ended up second, which is pretty good, too.

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Biography

Nationality: Romanian

Type: Athlete

Born: November 12th, 1961

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