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Nadia Comaneci – The Mark of Perfection
After her retirement in 1981, Nadia was an object of propaganda for the Communist regime and she was strictly monitored, especially after her former coaches, Bela and Martha Karoly secretly immigrated to the USA. In November 1989, just a few weeks before the fall of Nicolae Ceausescu, she secretly crossed the border to Hungary, then she passed in Austria and, finally, to the United States. There was a certain controversy surrounding her escape, as she was accompanied by a married man and her disillusioned attitude and appearance were not those of the top athlete everyone had loved.
Nadia gradually overcome these difficulties, settled in Montreal and rebuilt her life, involving in promotions of gymnastics equipment and modeling. She became engaged with the former American gymnast Bart Conner, whom she had known since 1976, in 1994.
The two were married in 1996 in Romania and, in 2001, Nadia also became an American citizen. She involved in numerous charitable activities and international organizations. She was the first athlete ever to be invited to speak at the United Nations, to launch the International Year of Volunteers, in 1999. She is the Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors of the International Special Olympics, Vice President of the Board of Directors of the Muscular Dystrophy Association. In 2003, she was appointed Honorary Consul General of Romania to the United States, she is the Honorary President of the Romanian Gymnastics Federation, The Honorary President of Romanian Olympic Committee, Ambassador of Sports of Romania and a member of the International Gymnastics Federation Foundation.
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