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Moceanu credits Miscenco for putting her back on track and for helping her adjust to her new frame after she grew seven inches in height and gained 18 pounds in 1997.
As Dominique continued to develop physically and mentally under the guidance of Miscenco, her confidence was restored and her eagerness to regain respect by proving herself as an individual escalated.
Although Dominique's return to the Olympics was cut short, she proved to herself and the whole world that after all that she had been through, she still wore the heart of a champion.
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 Dominique Moceanu Summary
Dominique Helena Moceanu (born September 30, 1981 in Hollywood, California) is an American gymnast of Romanian descent who was a member of the Olympic Gold medal winning 1996 U.S. Women's Gymnastics team in Atlanta (the "Magnificent 7").
The hallmarks of Moceanu's gymnastics, in the early stage of her elite career, were daring tricks on balance beam and spunky, inspired presentation on floor exercise.
Dominique was one of the last gymnasts to be trained by the legendary Romanian coaches Marta and Béla Károlyi in Houston Texas.
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 CNN - Judge rules teen-age gymnast an adult - October 28, 1998
Moceanu ran away from home October 18, and filed a lawsuit demanding to be declared a legal adult so she could control what remains of her fortune.
Moceanu was barred from dipping into the trust fund until she turned 35, but that could change now that she has been made a legal adult.
Moceanu, born in Los Angeles after her parents immigrated from Romania, was at age 14 the youngest member of the 1996 U.S. Olympic team.
www.cnn.com /US/9810/28/gymnast.parents.02/index.html   (483 words)

  
 Dominique Moceanu
Dominique is one who can laugh in a minute and cry in the next but this is the good kind of girl to coach.
Dominique was born on 30th September, 1981 in Hollywood, California.When Dominique was 3, the anxious Dumitru contacted Bela Karolyi and asked him to work with his child.
Dominique was only 14.) She developed to her full potential in 1997 when she made into the World Championship team and won the individual All-Around Finalist medal.
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 CNN - Gymnast Moceanu's father ordered to stay away - December 9, 1998
Moceanu was granted adult status in October, as part of her legal battle to control the millions she has made since her Olympic victory in 1996.
Moceanu wept as Judge John D. Montgomery, the same judge who granted her adult status, restricted contact between father and daughter to letters or communication through her attorney.
Dominique Moceanu testified she and a friend so feared for their safety that they left Houston for 10 days, including a brief Caribbean stop, while police investigated alleged threats by her father.
www.cnn.com /US/9812/09/gymnast.v.father/index.html   (416 words)

  
 United States Olympic Committee - Dominique Moceanu's petition is denied
Dominique Moceanu, a 1996 Olympic gold medalist who hoped to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Magnificent Seven's triumph in Atlanta by competing at the USA Gymnastics national championship next week in St. Paul, Minn., lost her appeal to the federation's grievance panel Thursday and will not be allowed to compete.
Moceanu, 24, who now lives and trains in Cincinnati with her fiancnd coach, former gymnast and medical resident Mike Canales, said she was disappointed by the ruling and does not believe USA Gymnastics has treated her fairly in her comeback effort.
Moceanu petitioned to the women's program selection committee for a spot in nationals, and her petition was denied, setting up her appeal to the grievance committee.
www.usolympicteam.com /11831_48492.htm   (517 words)

  
 The Magnificent 7 -- Dominique Moceanu: Trouble in Paradise
Dominique Moceanu has taken another mature step in her gymnastics development and has decided to leave her family matters behind and concentrate on her gymnastics career.
Dominique, who is in hiding in a Houston hotel with her agent, Janey Miller of Gold Medal Management, went to the Houston courts in October to gain her independence.
Dominique Moceanu's attorney, David Gray, sais that Dominique's parents have dropped their resistance to having her declared a legal adult and that an agreement would be presented today to a family court judge.
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 USA Gymnastics Online: News: Dominique Moceanu Press Conference
Dominique and I went to sit down after we talked to Larry and decided whether it was worth the risk or not to go out there.
Dominique will not be doing any type of petition, etc, obviously she is going to have to have surgery next week to have the bone removed.
At this point, Dominique is just going to stay for the weekend, enjoy the competition, and cheer her teammates on as well as the rest of the USA.
www.usa-gymnastics.org /news/2000/aug17-moceanu.html   (1817 words)

  
 :: News from Tri-C
Tri-C student Dominique Moceanu, 23, is returning to competition in a bid to qualify for the 2005 U.S. Gymnastics Championship, held this August in Indianapolis.
Moceanu has been plotting her spirited return to the sport since November of 2004 when she began rigorously working herself into competitive shape thanks in part to sponsorship from Woodward Gymnastics Camp in Pennsylvania, where she will be teaching and training throughout the summer.
Moceanu is proud to have the support of her family as she moves forward in her training.
www.tri-c.cc.oh.us /news/features/dominique.htm   (617 words)

  
 Dominique Moceanu Biography | Sports Stars
By the time Moceanu turned ten years old, she was training with the legendary gymnastics coach Bela Karolyi, whose former students include Olympic champions Nadia Comaneci and Mary Lou Retton.
Moceanu's parents hung her from a clothesline when she was only an infant to test her grip.
Moceanu followed up her success at the national championships by winning a silver medal in the balance beam at the 1995 World Gymnastics Championships in Sabae, Japan.
www.bookrags.com /biography/dominique-moceanu-spo   (1868 words)

  
 CNNSI.com - Olympic Sports - Moceanu dealing with reality of not making Olympics - Friday August 18, 2000 04:14 PM
Moceanu, now 18, joined Jaycie Phelps as the second of the five 1996 Olympians to halt their comebacks due to injuries.
Moceanu had surgery on the same knee last year, and the bone chip came about gradually, said her coach Mary Lee Tracy.
Dumitru Moceanu, who denied the accusations, was ordered to stay away from his daughter for a year.
sportsillustrated.cnn.com /olympics/news/2000/08/17/moceanu_trials_ap   (846 words)

  
 Dominique Moceanu   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Born on September 30, 1981, her parents, Dimitry and Camelia Moceanu hoped Dominique would be a gymnast because both of them were.
Dominique has a younger sister named Christina also is a gymnasts.
This was Dominique's big chance to prove she could be one of Bela's students.
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 Dominique Moceanu - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Moceanu was one of the last gymnasts to be trained by the legendary Romanian coaches Marta and Béla Károlyi in Houston Texas.
Moceanu's national and international successes, combined with her plucky, bubbly attitude, earned her attention and a wide fan base both in and out of the gymnastics community.
In late 1998 Moceanu was in the news for another reason--she left home and sued for legal emancipation from her parents, in order to regain control of the money she'd earned as a gymnastics professional.
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Dominique Helena Moceanu was born on September 30, 1981 in Hollywood California.
Dominique has become one of the best gymnasts of her time.
Dominique has been through a lot, but perhaps the most rewarding part of her carrer was the spot that had her name on it at the 1996 Olympic Games, and that gold medal she wore around her neck.
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 ohnotheydidnt: Gymnast Dominique Moceanu Gets Married
Dominique Moceanu, who won a gold medal at the 1996 summer Olympics as part of the U.S. women's gymnastics team dubbed the Magnificent Seven, wed longtime beau Michael Canales in her hometown of Houston on Saturday afternoon.
Moceanu, 25, and Canales, 29, a former nationally ranked collegiate gymnast who is now a resident in podiatric surgery in Cleveland, started dating in 2001.
Moceanu, who did most of the wedding planning herself, wore an off-the-rack strapless satin dress from Oleg Cassini, while her bridesmaids were clad in plum-colored satin sheaths and stoles.
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 Dominique Moceanu Profile
Observing Moceanu interact with her parents, and 14-year-old sister Christina, one would never guess there had been a rift.  During a holiday visit (one of four visits last year) the family came to watch Dominique train at Gymnastics World in
If Moceanu is guilty of poor character judgments in the past, she seems to have rectified that with boyfriend Michael Canales, the reason she moved to
Akron native James Hinton III.  It was his wife who suggested Moceanu for the lead after seeing her in a TV ad for Tri-C.  With only a concept in mind, he approached Moceanu.  Once she agreed to star, he was inspired and completed the script in three days.
www.susanfee.com /articles/text/personality/as_fast_as_she_can.htm   (1139 words)

  
 Dominique Moceanu
Although lots of people think that Domi is a really cute a cool name for a star like Dominique, she does not like the the sound of Domi.
Here are some pictures of Dominique in the Reese's International Competition which was (I know) quite a long time ago but I am still working up a collection of new pic's for this section.
Here is a cute picture of Dominique just having fun at the beach with her friends.
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 IG Online Interview
Moceanu won a team gold medal at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics Games, where she finished ninth all-around, fourth on floor exercise and sixth on balance beam.
A judge granted the 17-year-old Moceanu's request to be an emancipated minor, allowing her to live independently and control her own finances.
Moceanu relocated to Cincinnati Gymnastics Academy (under coach Mary Lee Tracy) in early 2000, but her attempt to make the U.S. Olympic team that year ended with a knee injury.
www.intlgymnast.com /interview/moceanu_dominique.html   (2333 words)

  
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Dominique Moceanu was thinking about what to do after winning Olympic gold.
Dominique was eager to show the world her gold-winning abilities at the Goodwill Games.
Dominique has always been determined and driven, and all of her hard work has certainly paid off.
www.warm2kids.com /guest/teen/30/37/408/index.htm   (132 words)

  
 Texas Monthly February 1999: Has Dominique Moceanu Flipped?
At the 1996 Olympics Dominique charmed the world; even when she fell and landed on her head, her dimpled smile was so infectious that audiences cheered wildly for her.
But last fall, Dominique, who’s now seventeen, walked into a Houston courtroom, her eyes fixed to the floor, and refused to glance at the table where her parents were sitting.
Houston police detectives told Dominique they were investigating allegations that her father had tried to hire a hit man to kill her new gymnastics coach, Luminita Miscenco, and Brian Huggins, a handsome, married 32-year-old whom she met when he provided Dumitru some equipment for the gym.
www.texasmonthly.com /preview/1999-02-01/feature2   (1263 words)

  
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Dominique was born on Sept. 30, 1981 in Hollywood, CA.
At age 4 her father first contacts Bela Karoli inquiring about enrolling Dominique in his classes but he advises him to wait until age 9 or 10.
Dominique's shoe size at the Olympics were the smallest in the whole olympics at size 5 1/2?
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 Magnificent Seven (Gymnastics) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The seven members of the team were Shannon Miller, Dominique Dawes, Dominique Moceanu, Kerri Strug, Amy Chow, Amanda Borden and Jaycie Phelps.
In the All-Around finals Dominique Moceanu had a big balance check after her punch front on the balance beam which ultimately knocked her out of contention when she only scored a 9.600.
Dominique Moceanu and Shannon Miller were both competing, and they were both supposed to challenge for gold.
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 Gymnast Dominique Moceanu remains in seclusion
HOUSTON (AP) -- Gymnast Dominique Moceanu remained in seclusion Thursday, three days after she obtained a restraining order against her parents and asked a court to make her a legal adult.
Miss Moceanu left her home Sunday night, a day after an argument with her father in which he threatened to have her coach, 26-year-old Luminita Miscenco, deported to Romania.
At 14, Moceanu was the youngest member of the 1996 Olympic team at the Atlanta Games and is the only member of that team still competing in all gymnastics events.
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 Texas Monthly February 1999: Has Dominique Moceanu Flipped?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
More than a year ago, Dominique said, coaches and other gymnasts began telling her that she should have a greater say about how her money is spent.
Dominique admitted to me that her father often exaggerates and says things that he doesn’t really mean.
But Dominique took the stand and said she had seen her father following her and hanging around outside her school on a few occasions since she had left home.
www.texasmonthly.com /mag/issues/1999-02-01/feature2-2.php   (1330 words)

  
 MOCEANU.NET (Dominique Moceanu) - jasonworld.com (a JWEI Co.)
It wasn't about if she won or how many medals she had to her name, as much as it was about the joy of seeing her perform.
The winners of the competitions where Dominique performed will not be remembered, but the people will remember that "Moceanu" girl....
I hope that every young girl and boy that sees the light in her eyes, the beauty in her smile, the joy of her heart will know and learn that with hard work, determination, and faith in their hearts...
moceanu.net   (324 words)

  
 Dominique - Moviefone
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