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OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) -- Olympic gold medalist Nadia Comaneci capped an 11-year journey to freedom by taking the oath to become a United States citizen. "The world is open today," Comaneci...
...statements. So how come Andreea Raducan, barely out of childhood, lost Romania's first gymnastics gold medal since Nadia Comaneci simply for taking cold medicine? Chalk it up to the IOC's newly updated, comprehensive and sometimes confusing...
...4-foot-10, 82-pound Raducan won the women's all-around Thursday night, the first Romanian to take the gold since Nadia Comaneci. As if that wasn't triumph enough for the Romanian team, which also won the team gold, Simona Amanar and Maria...
...all-around gymnastic gold since Nadia Comaneci in a small country where great...to her left was none other than Nadia Comaneci, her direct gymnastic ancestor...passed quickly. And suddenly Nadia Comaneci -- tiny icon of a generation...
...Olaru, who won silver and bronze in the all-around. The pint-sized Raducan, often compared to Romanian star Nadia Comaneci, declined comment as she climbed into a car. Since the Sydney Olympics began, the court has overturned a drug-related...
...Baker said. "They get mobbed even at something like that, even though it was private. Jim Brown, Peggy Fleming, Nadia Comaneci and Bart Conner were there. So were Jackie Joyner Kersee and Carl Lewis. I got a chance to talk with them and meet...
...results of which won't be known for four weeks, when the team competes at the Olympics. But the coach who helped Nadia Comaneci, Mary Lou Retton and Kerri Strug win gold -- the man lured back to the spotlight after the United States finished...
...determined." Karolyi is arguably one of the most successful gymnastics coach in the world. The Romanian immigrant helped Nadia Comaneci, Mary Lou Retton and Kerri Strug to Olympic gold, and he's coached 15 world champions and six national champs...
...Evert Lloyd, tennis 1979 -- Tracy Austin, tennis 1978 -- Nancy Lopez, golf 1977 -- Chris Evert, tennis 1976 -- Nadia Comaneci, gymnastics 1975 -- Chris Evert, tennis 1974 -- Chris Evert, tennis 1973 -- Billie Jean King, tennis 1972...
...pounds, outpointed Taalaibek Kadiraliev of Kyrgyszstan to advance to the quarterfinals. ------ -- GYMNASTICS: Nadia Comaneci must be proud. Andreea Raducan led a Romanian sweep in the women's all-around competition and became the first...