Bela Karolyi, the polarizing coach who helped launch gymnasts to Olympic stardom, dies at 82 ...Middle East

By Holly Yan, CNN (CNN) — Bela Karolyi, the legendary and controversial Romanian American gymnastics coach who helped lead Mary Lou Retton, Nadia Comaneci and Kerri Strug to Olympic gold, has died, USA Gymnastics announced. He was 82. Karolyi, along with his wife and world-class coaching partner Marta Karolyi, is credited with catapulting US women’s gymnastics to unprecedented success – albeit in ways some described as abusive or “sadistic” and that drew legal scrutiny to their famed Texas training mecca. Still, Bela Karolyi remained unapologetic to the end for the methods he used to blaze a path to sports glory. “My attitude … is never to be satisfied,” he once told Texas Monthly. “N

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