Gold medal for brutality: She was the prodigy who scored seven perfect tens at the 1976 Olympics. But now, writes TOM LEONARD, secret police files reveal the shocking truth of how Nadia Comaneci was starved and slapped by her coach

Gold medal for brutality: She was the prodigy who scored seven perfect tens at the 1976 Olympics. But now, writes TOM LEONARD, secret police files reveal the shocking truth of how Nadia Comaneci was starved and slapped by her coach

Daily Mail·2021-05-05 01:00

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.

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