Word: nadia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Match. The Aug. 17 issue featured an eight-page spread detailing the triangular affair of Princess, Delon and her longtime boyfriend Paul Belmondo, 21, son of the actor Jean-Paul. The palace went to court, claiming an invasion of privacy, but a French judge refused to stop publication. Huffed Nadia Lacoste, spokeswoman for the Grimaldis: "I don't think anyone tracks gangsters the way they go after the family." Paris Match returned the fire: "If one wants to be private," says Deputy Editor Patrick Mahé", "one doesn't go to a swimming pool on the beach...
Next, Disney World was a happy and uneventful stop. Then the Dallas barbecue was a hazard only to gymnasts: for them, just to whiff Texas barbecue is to risk going to bed as Nadia Comaneci and waking up as Shelley Winters. Finally, a little regretfully, the team disbanded. "Celebrity's been a big change for me," Retton said. "In a way it's really neat. But it won't change me. I'm still just plain Mary Lou. Meeting the President was neat. I'm a little sad it's over after nine years...
...land that gave the world Nadia Comaneci in 1976, sports authorities still appear to favor the development of women gymnasts at the expense of men. Only two male gymnasts appeared in Los Angeles, and neither placed in the top 20. Rumanian women have shown sharp improvement in track and field. They finished first and third in the 800 meters and first in the long jump. Most glowing of all, Maricica Puica, 34, won a startling victory in the women's 3,000-meter race followed by a bronze in the 1,500 meters...
...Theirs are shinier than ours." Two nights later, everything that glittered was around Retton's neck. She won the gold medal in the all-around championship, the most coveted prize in gymnastics, since it marks the winner as the finest gymnast in the world. It is the crown Nadia Comaneci once wore, and Lyudmila Tourischeva, and which Olga Korbut, for all her charm, was too limited an athlete to achieve. Retton sealed her claim to it in the most dramatic duel in the history of the sport, winning by performing a perfect 10 in her final event, the vault...
...ovation from the crowd), Rumania's women could never forget their legacy or fail to uphold it. Yet it was a burden they bore lightly. When one of the team's top performers, Lavinia Agache, 18, was asked if she wanted to be as good as Nadia, she replied, "Yes. I want to be better...