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	NADIA COMANECI When Nadia was about 14 she scored the first perfect 10 at the Olympics in Women's Gymnastics. She was only 86 pounds and 4 feet 11 inches. That's about the size of a really tall 4th grader! No person, especially such a small one, had ever scored a perfect 10!. In 1994 Nadia donated $120,000 to the Romanian gymnastics team. In 1996 she married Bart Conners, another Olympic champion. They now live in Norman, Oklahoma and run a gymnastics school. As her legendary coach, Bela Karolyi once stated of Nadia, "She has three qualities. The physical qualities-strength, speed, agility. The intellectual qualities-intelligence and the power to concentrate. And above everything, Nadia has courage." (Source: Internet)
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	GHITA MURESAN Mr. Gheorghe “Ghita” Muresan, former player with the Washington Bullets basketball team, visited Ambassador Nicholas F. Taubman at the American Embassy in Bucharest on September 7. Mr. Muresan came to brief the Ambassador about a proposed National Basketball Association (NBA) program to promote sports in Romanian schools. The Ambassador welcomed the initiative. He thanked Muresan for leading basketball clinics in Targoviste organized by the. (Source: Internet)
Ghita Muresan as The Beauty Calin Popescu Tariceanu as the Beast former romanian NBA-player (still romanian prime minister)		Ghita Muresan (2m 32cm) cel mai inalt jucator din NBA, Washington 1999. Foto: Zsolt Meier