Word: dumitru
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...That draw will showcase the No.1 team in the nation, Dumitru Caradima and Shuon Madden of Texas A&M; the No. 3 team, Gavin Sontag and Jeff Laski of Illinois; and the No. 5 team, Dustin Mauck and Keith Pollack...
That draw will showcase the No. 1 team in the nation, Dumitru Caradima and Shuon Madden of Texas A&M; the No. 3 team, Gavin Sontag and Jeff Laski of Illinois; and the No. 5 team, Dustin Mauck and Keith Pollack...
...Dumitru and Camelia Moceanu had the greatest of expectations for their daughter Dominique--even before she was born. The Romanian gymnasts, who had defected to the U.S. during the cold war, made a pact that their first-born would follow in their footsteps--even if they had to "just drink water and eat bread." Dumitru had his baby girl hanging by her hands from a clothesline at six months and tumbling in her first gymnastics class at age three. It paid off. Soon after her 10th birthday, they left their jobs in Tampa, Fla.--Camelia worked in a hair salon...
...about the plan, he drove to Dallas and took the check and Dominique back to Houston. Dominique told the Houston Chronicle that beyond just controlling her purse strings, her parents pressured her, and she lived in fear of her father, saying he hit her "a couple of times." Dumitru says he never hit her and maintains she is being influenced by others, including her new coach, Luminita Miscenco. Kurt Thomas told TIME that things were so bad at home that Dominique considered leading the family in an escape from her father: "I know Dominique feared for her mother...
Camelia Moceanu, however, portrays her daughter as a prima donna. "Everything she asked for she had," says Camelia, referring to an apartment-size bedroom, the gym complex and, last month, a Mercedes on her 17th birthday, which the teenager traded in for a convertible Mustang. Dumitru maintains that while Dominique will not have access to her trust fund until she is 35, her parents built the gym with her knowledge and blessing. Camelia admitted her husband had been strict with Dominique but insisted, "You are strict for their own good, but nothing to the point it was unbearable." Camelia also...