She not only won the competition, she dominated the rest of the field, even outscoring the second place finisher and future 1999 World All Around Champion Maria Olaru by 0.687 points.
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However, she faltered in the last rotation of team finals, falling on both vaults, a situation which directly resulted in the U.S. chance of a gold medal resting solely on teammate Kerri Strug's final vault.
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In doing so, she defeated reigning World all-around champion Svetlana Khorkina and World silver and bronze medalists, Simona Amânar and Elena Produnova.
Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster | Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres | Dominique Perrault | Dominique de Villepin | Dominique Lapierre | Dominique Strauss-Kahn | Jean-Étienne Dominique Esquirol | Dominique Wilkins | Dominique Visse | Dominique Valadié | Dominique Peccatte | Dominique Dawes | Dominique Daguerre | Dominique Blais | Dominique Eade | Dominique A | Église Saint-Dominique de Bonifacio | Dominique Voynet | Dominique Vien | Dominique Othenin-Girard | Dominique Moulon | Dominique Moore | Dominique Moceanu | Dominique Joseph Garat | Dominique Jennings | Dominique-France Loeb-Picard | Dominique Dunne | Dominique Da Silva | Dominique Besnehard | Dominique Amestoy |
Among the gymnasts Béla and Márta Károlyi have trained are Nadia Comăneci, Svetlana Boginskaya, Mary Lou Retton, Betty Okino, Teodora Ungureanu, Kim Zmeskal, Kristie Phillips, Dominique Moceanu, and Kerri Strug, whom he is famous for carrying to the podium after she injured her ankle on the gold medal-winning vault in the team competition at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia.
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Some of his former athletes, including Kristie Phillips, Dominique Moceanu, and Erica Stokes, have stated publicly that Károlyi was verbally and psychologically abusive during workouts.