Article 6SAGA Famed gymnastics coach Béla Károlyi dies, leaving behind a complicated legacy

Famed gymnastics coach Béla Károlyi dies, leaving behind a complicated legacy

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Last week, gymnastics legend Bela Karolyi passed away. He was 82 years old. He trained some of the biggest names in gymnastics at the height of the Cold War, and across the East-West divides. But his legacy is complicated by allegations of an abusive coaching style and his association with Dr. Larry Nassar, whose sexual abuse of women gymnasts surfaced in 2016. The World's Carolyn Beeler spoke to Cristi Munteanu, a senior writer with the Romanian sports news site Golazo.

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