Nadia Comaneci and the Secret Police (Paperback)

Dr Stejarel Olaru

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Edité par Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, London, 2024

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Paperback. 2024 Independent Publisher Book Awards Winner Silver Medal, World HistoryNadia Comaneci is the Romanian child prodigy and global gymnastics star who ultimately fled her homeland and the brutal oppression of a communist regime. At the age of just 14, Nadia became the first gymnast to be awarded a perfect score of 10.0 at the 1976 Montreal Olympic Games and went on to collect three gold medals in performances which influenced the sport for generations to come, cementing Nadias place as a sporting legend. However, as the communist authorities in Romania sought an iron grip over its highest-profile athletes, Nadia and her trainers were subjected to surveillance from the Securitate, the Romanian secret police. Drawing on 25,000 secret police archive pages, countless secret service intelligence documents, and numerous wiretap recordings, this book tells the compelling story of Nadias life and career using unique insights from the communist dictatorship which monitored her.Nadia Comaneci and the Secret Police explores Nadias complex and combustible relationship with her sometimes abusive coaches, Bela and Marta Karolyi, figures who would later become embroiled in the USA Gymnastics scandal. The book addresses Nadias mental struggles and 1978 suicide attempt, and her remarkable resurgence to gold at the Moscow Olympics in 1980. It explores the impact of Nadias subsequent withdrawal from international activity and reflects on burning questions surrounding the heart-stopping, border-hopping defection to the United States that she successfully undertook in November 1989. Was the defection organised by CIA agents? Was it arranged on the orders of President George Bush himself? Or was Nadia aided and abetted by some of the very Securitate officers who were meant to be watching the communist worlds most lauded sporting icon? What is revealed is a thrilling tale of endurance and escape, in which one of the worlds greatest gymnasts risked everything for freedom. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Titre
Nadia Comaneci and the Secret Police (Paperback)
Auteur
Dr Stejarel Olaru
Éditeur
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, London
Année de publication
2024
État de l'article
new
Reliure
Paperback
Langue
anglais
ISBN à 10 chiffres
1350511501
ISBN à 13 chiffres
9781350511507

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