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...there the similarities stop. Whereas competition is an acquired taste for Miller, Zmeskal thrives on the audience adulation and pressure. "Since she was little, she was always liking to be watched and admired," says Zmeskal's Romanian-born coach, Bela Karolyi. "She was always a little showgirl." Zmeskal's boosters are confident that, win or lose, she will perform at her best in Barcelona...
...proved to be the Mickey Mouse that roared. As a direct consequence of the deduction, the U.S. team finished fourth instead of third, trailing the East Germans by a heart-sickening 0.3 of a point. "It's a dirty maneuver," fumed U.S. coach Bela Karolyi, who also charged that the East Germans had received unfairly high scores...
...eyed East German with the soul of Leo Durocher, detected a U.S. irregularity involving the bat boy. Poor Rhonda Faehn: three years ago, at 14, she left Coon Rapids, Minn., for Houston to tumble with the other dolls at the trick knee of the Rumanian defector Bela Karolyi. When she missed making the Olympic team by 0.1 point, he brought her along as a roustabout. Docked 0.5 points for Faehn's harmless presence on the platform, the U.S. women lost the bronze medal to the G.D.R. by 0.3 points. In his understated way, Karolyi expressed how they felt: "Like...
...past year, Greg Marsden and Don Peters each resigned as women's team coach after feuding with, among others, Bela Karolyi, Mary Lou Retton's coach. The women's team will not have a head coach in Seoul. U.S. prosecutors even reviewed alleged financial improprieties at the U.S. Gymnastics Federation. Said Peters: "I wish it would all go away...
...commentator at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul. "I had to stop my real education in the tenth grade," says Retton of her decision. She didn't want to look back later and "wish I went to college." Her first English paper was on her coach Bela Karolyi. "It was supposed to be descriptive, and I know him very well," explains Retton. "I got good comments on it." That doesn't sound like a 10, but close enough...