Gymnastics prodigy Nadia Comaneci was only six years old when Bela Karolyi spotted her and a friend performing cartwheels in a corner of their school playground in a small town in Romania.
Karolyi, who was training a gymnastics team to earn international acclaim for the vicious communist regime of Nicolae Ceausescu, famously described going from classroom to classroom until he finally found them.
And in Comaneci, the first gymnast to score a perfect ten in the Olympics (and only 14 when she did it), the stony-faced Karolyi and his equally formidable wife Marta found a superstar and prodigy who matched their determination to win whatever the cost.
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