Dominique Moceanu
Dominique Helen Moceanu ( born September 30, 1981 in Hollywood, California, United States) is an American equipment gymnast of Romanian origin, who at the Olympic Summer Games won a gold medal as the youngest participant and was known by a legal dispute with her parents because of her childhood.
Life
Parents and Camelia Dumitru Moceanu were born in Romania, they were both active competitive gymnast. Her father Dumitru was a Level -10 gymnast of the Romanian Junior National Team and her mother Camelia. They came in 1980 in the United States. The family lived in California, Illinois and Florida before moving to Houston. The youngest sister, Christina, is also a gymnast. Dominique Moceanu began gymnastics in 1984 and was six years in the U.S. National Team. Your favorite events were the floor exercise and balance beam. She is fluent in Romanian. In 1996, she was on the cover of Vanity Fair magazine and appeared in a commercial for Kodak TV.
Dominique Moceanu participated at the age of 14 years at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. She went to in the all around the Goodwill Games. With 77.523 points they ended up with the women in the first place and won for the United States in addition to five other participants in the gold medal on balance beam.
On 30 October 1998 she told a court in Houston prematurely age and thus followed the request of the then 17 - year-olds who had accused her parents of misappropriation of funds. Camelia Dumitru Moceanu and invested income of around four million dollars to have taken without consultation with their daughter, in order to finance the construction of a gymnastics camp can. Dominique Moceanu has accused her parents: "I was just their business. You have robbed me of my childhood - and my money, "she said.
She accused her parents of stealing through the training program their childhood. Camelia Dumitru Moceanu and should have the prize money won by her daughter Dominique incorrectly managed and not given the things that normal girls would have done at her age.
Because of an injury that occurred in the training of the knee she had to give up the 1999 World Championship in October in the People's Republic of China and undergoing surgery. The following year she had for the same reason on the eve of the U.S. Trials ad in Boston and could not participate in the 2000 Olympic Games.
Dominique Moceanu visited the Northland Christian School and it has been completed in the autumn of 1997 with the eleventh grade. She has her own book entitled " Dominique Moceanu: An American Champion" placed on the market. Her family owns the gymnastics center Moceanu Gymnastics in Houston.
On 13 March 2009, Dominique Moceanu mother of a son, Vincent Michael.