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Dominique Moceanu
Dominique Moceanu
American Athlete
Born: Sep 30, 1981
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I don't think ethical people deal with intimidation as a method to achieve success. Undermining someone's self-esteem isn't a method to achieve success. Dominique Moceanu
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I got injured at the Olympic Trials in 2000. I could not jump. I could not walk on my leg properly. I couldn't bend my knee. I couldn't straighten it. Dominique Moceanu
Trials Walk Bend Properly Could Knee Got Jump Leg Straighten Injured Olympic
I had this sister that was born who was given up for adoption, and I never knew it. Dominique Moceanu
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My father wasn't allowing me control and the financial freedom that I was asking for. I was 17, about to be 18 within a year, so I started asking more questions because I felt that I needed to start learning about those things. Dominique Moceanu
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I was able to represent my country and put on the red, white, and blue - how many people in the world get to do that? Standing on the podium with my teammates, and being the first women's gymnastics team to win this gold medal, it was life-changing! Dominique Moceanu
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I believe you can be young and compete in gymnastics if you have a coach who is looking out for you and if there is a good gym environment where the coaches are taking care of you emotionally and physically. Dominique Moceanu
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I was very hungry to compete internationally when I was 10 years old, and I was good enough to compete, so that part never made me afraid or worried at all. When I was at my peak, around 12 and 13, I won my junior national and senior national titles back to back. Dominique Moceanu
Good Me Old Made National Enough Back Worried Hungry Never Part Around Years Won Very Junior Senior Afraid Titles Internationally Peak Compete
Some coaches are not educated at the elite level in health and nutrition. They're not educated in how the body works from anatomy and physiology perspectives. Dominique Moceanu
Health Nutrition Anatomy Some Physiology How Educated Perspectives Body Coaches Works Level Elite
We need to educate our elite coaches more and have a better approach to teaching the athletes about how to be healthy rather than berate them, humiliate them, use tactics that could scar them for life. Dominique Moceanu
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In football, you're dealing with grown men. In gymnastics, you're dealing with prepubescent teenage girls. There's a huge difference. At that age, you're not confident enough to have a voice. Dominique Moceanu
You Age Men Girl Enough Teenage Teenage Girls Voice Gymnastics Football Dealing Huge Huge Difference Confident Difference Grown Grown Men
I was so afraid to make mistakes and get reprimanded by my coaches that the joy of the sport started slipping away. Dominique Moceanu
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I'd challenge myself to see how long I could go without a fall - on beam, I once went three weeks. Dominique Moceanu
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In Romania, of course, gymnastics is among the most popular sports, and my parents had a dream of escaping the Ceausescu regime and giving their child a better life. So they came to the United States and put me in gymnastics. Dominique Moceanu
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Since my mother is an extremely devoted Christian Orthodox woman, she prayed a great deal and taught me how to pray. Dominique Moceanu
Great Me Woman Mother Great Deal Christian Extremely Since She Devoted Deal How Pray Prayed Taught Orthodox
When you have traveled the world, won Olympic gold, and gone through a very public court battle against your parents all by the age of seventeen, surprises don't come easy. Dominique Moceanu
You Age Battle World Parents Gone Seventeen Easy Through Come Court Surprises Won Very Gold Against Public Your Traveled Olympic Olympic Gold
I can barely recall a single holiday when my father didn't make a scene or create some kind of chaos. We were always walking on eggshells. Dominique Moceanu
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I was awkward-looking with huge brown eyes, dark brown, pencil-straight hair styled into an old-school Romanian bowl haircut from the 1980s. And I was very, very small. I was always the tiniest kid on my street and in my classes at school... The gym was the one place I didn't have to worry about feeling awkward for being so petite. Dominique Moceanu
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I never, ever objected to hard work. Dominique Moceanu
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I learned to take those experiences that were difficult in my life and in the adversity that I had overcome to use it for a positive change. Dominique Moceanu
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