Two days after returning from Montreal, I was training again, and I went on to win two more golds at the 1980 Moscow Olympics.
From Nadia Comaneci
After retiring from competition in 1981, I did exhibitions and coached.
I come from a communist country. We learned nothing of lawyers, nothing about rights.
I think a lot of people don't actually know me. They think, 'She's like this,' or, 'She's like that.' They say I have no emotions - I do, but you couldn't see them then. I had to keep them inside.
Gymnastics is so huge in the Olympics. There are a lot of fans who want to see more.
I wasn't allowed to leave Romania. That made me mad. You just want your freedom. You want your space. You want opportunity.
When I got married in Bucharest, there were 10,000 people on the street. People didn't go to work that day. It was emotional to see how people care about you. I didn't expect that.
I like Oklahoma. It's a quiet place. You can work, and nobody disturbs you.
See, when I went to the Olympics in '76, the gymnastics people knew that I was good, but everybody else, after I won, everybody was like, 'Where's she coming from? Who is she? What is Romania?'
I made the cover of 'Sports Illustrated,' 'Newsweek' and 'Time' all in one week, and I didn't even know what that meant.
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