Nadia Comaneci's epic journey


[post_page_title]The first competition[/post_page_title]
Nadia began training with Bela Karolyi and by the time she turned seven she was already training for 2-3 hours a day with the esteemed coach.

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The first competition

She was lucky as Karolyi had opened up a gym in her town meaning that she did not have to travel through roadblocks and checkpoints to reach the gym (people needed government permission to travel from town to town). Nadia fell down a lot in those first years, but Karolyi kept pushing her forward.

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