When Nadia Abdalla, the director for Africa communications at CorpsAfrica, walks into a room, her presence is impossible to ...

The Swede won the French Open twice as a teenager, and would dominate during the era of tennis royalty including the likes of John McEnroe, Jimmy Connors, Ilie Nastase, Vitas Gerulaitis and Arthur ...

Iconic athletes like Cafu and Nadia Comaneci engaged with young participants in Madrid. They joined a football session with children from marginalised areas. The program, Futbol Mas, promotes well ...

Nadia Comaneci became known worldwide thanks to her perfect score in the 1976 Olympic Games, however, her achievement only provoked a series of bad events that led her to attempt against her life.

Nadia Comaneci, the eternal icon of perfection for her 10 at the Montreal Olympics, still dominates the scene 50 years later. "Have you looked me up on Wikipedia to see who I was?" she jokes as ...

In Germany, for a hat-trick — scoring three goals in the ... possible for a gymnast to simply score a “perfect 10” as Nadia Comaneci of Romania did at the 1976 Olympics in Montreal (a ...

Under Bela Karolyi's coaching, Nadia Comaneci achieved worldwide recognition in the 1976 Montreal Olympics by becoming the first gymnast to receive a perfect score of 10, a feat she repeated six ...

Former Romania and United States coach Bela Karolyi, who trained Nadia Comaneci to become the first gymnast to score a perfect 10 at the Olympics, has died aged 82, USA Gymnastics said late on ...

Karolyi and wife Martha trained multiple Olympic gold medalists and world champions in the U.S. and Romania, including Nadia Comaneci and Mary Lou Retton. By Carly Thomas, The Associated Press ...

The Karolyis defected to the United States in 1981 and, over the next 30-plus years, became a guiding force in American gymnastics, though not without controversy. Bela helped guide a 16-year-old ...

Bela Karolyi, the legendary and controversial Romanian American gymnastics coach who helped lead Mary Lou Retton, Nadia Comaneci and Kerri Strug to Olympic gold, has died, USA Gymnastics announced.

No cause of death was given. Karolyi and wife Martha trained multiple Olympic gold medalists and world champions in the U.S. and Romania, including Nadia Comaneci and Mary Lou Retton.