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Bela Karolyi, gymnastics coach who mentored Nadia and Mary Lou and courted controversy, dies at 82
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By WILL GRAVES Bela Karolyi, the charismatic if polarizing gymnastics coach who turned young women into champions and the United States into an international power, has died. He was 82. USA Gymnastics said Karolyi died Friday. No cause of death was given. Karolyi and wife Martha trained multiple Olympic gold medalists and world champions in the U.S. and Romania, including Nadia Comaneci and Mary Lou Retton. “A big impact and influence on my life,” Comaneci, who was just 14 when Karolyi coached her to gold for Romania at the 1976 Montreal Olympics, posted on Instagram. The Karolyis defected to the United States in 1981 and over the next 30-plus years became a guiding force in American gymna

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