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Mar 28, 2017 dominique moceanu, a 1996 gold medalist, described a culture of fear, intimidation and humiliation, established by bela and martha karolyi, the legendary coaches who are named in a civil. Gymnast dominique moceanu opens up about longlost sister. Off balance, dominique moceanu s memoir, paints a dark picture of legendary coach bela karolyi and of elite gymnastics. She lives in cleveland, ohio, with her husband and two children. Winning team by dominique moceanu, alicia thompson kirkus. Jennifer bricker born october 1, 1987 is an american acrobat and aerialist. The section biography of this page contains content from the ed wikipedia article dominique moceanu.
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Dominique received her bachelors degree in business administration from john carroll university just two months after the familys second child, vincent michael was born in march of 2009. Dominique moceanu s new gymnastics, yoga center opens in medina. Jen bricker reconnects with sister dominique moceanu. Dominique moceanu, a gold medalist on the 1996 olympic team who trained at tracys cincinnati gymnastics academy in the early 2000s, said she. Sep 24, 2006 dominique moceanu 1996 olympics team optionals balance beam. Dominique helena moceanu is an american author and retired gymnast. Before the olympics, she was featured in vanity fair and wrote an autobiography, dominique moceanu. As a member of the womens gymnastics team, she won a gold medal at the 1996 olympic games. In this searing and riveting new york times bestseller, olympic gold m. Dominique wanted to build upon her championship legacy. Off balance a memoir, of dominique moceanu with paul and teri williams, touchstone paperback 20, p 22. She refused to compromise with the book and poured her heart out. You may redistribute it, verbatim or modified, providing that you comply with the terms of the gfdl.
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As the daughter of two athletic romanian immigrants, dominique was destined to follow in her parents agile footsteps. Jul 30, 2012 for gymnast moceanu, life threw her off balance dominique moceanu is the youngest gymnast to win an olympic gold medal. Astrology and natal chart of dominique moceanu, born on 1981. And after i read her book i had to reach out to her everything she wrote. At fourteen years old, dominique moceanu was the youngest member of the 1996 us womens olympic gymnastics team, the first and only american womens team to take gold at the olympics.
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Dominique moceanu was born in hollywood, florida in september 1981. Moceanu was expected to be a major medal threat at the olympics. The child, jennifer grew up idolizing dominique moceanu never knowing that the gymnast was her sister. The hallmarks of moceanus gymnastics, in the early part of her elite career, were daring tricks on the balance beam and spunky routines on the floor exercise. Dominique moceanu makes you think twice about making your. The olympic gold medalist called for usa gymnastics president steve penny to resign for dereliction of duty. This is the home of the youngest olympic champion in u. Oct 12, 2017 now, former olympic gymnast dominique moceanu is making similar claims about the network, saying that when her memoir, off balance was published in 2012, she was told that nbc attempted to bury.