The Secrets of a Gymnast by Andrei Nourescu is a book I want to read.
It was voted Book of The Year by the Romanian Sport Press Association (2003); 1st English edition released Jan 2006.
… “Fraud, violence, abuses with penal implications, here are some allegations about the secret methods used in Romanian gymnastics.” …
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I just learned about it on the extensive Romanian-Gymnastics.com site.
They also pointed me to their page called “The Wall of Shame” which names athletes who suffered abuse and coaches implicated.
This is far from the first time I’ve been told of horror stories in Romania. But people are innocent until proven guilty. Be clear that you cannot believe everything you read on the internet — not even on this site.
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[...] IMMEDIATELY after we posted allegations of abuse in Romania, a coach has been sanctioned. A Romanian coach has been banned for a year by his national federation for physically abusing a 15-year-old female gymnast, an official told Reuters on Tuesday. [...]
[...] A year after we first posted the award winning tell all exposé Secrets of a Gymnast by Andrei Nourescu, I’m embarrassed to say I still have not read it. [...]
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