Olympics 2008

[Ghoulish Delight]

Originally Posted by Tenigma

And for all the harm that Karolyi did to women's gymnastics, the hunger for such success was so great that we embraced him with open arms when he immigrated to the U.S. to open his own gym here.

Ugh, I remember that. I was pretty young, but even I was creeped out by that whole series of events. I don't know if I became aware of that paradox in '84 when he was just coaching MLR or '88 when he was the head coach, but I just remember being pretty distressed that there was this lurking possiblity that his reformation was an elaborate facade and that he really was practically torturing the team.