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In this particular searing and riveting New York Times best owner, Olympic yellow metal medalist Dominique Moceanu uncovers the dark underbelly of Olympic gymnastics, the true price of success...and the shocking magic formula about her recent and her family that she only discovered years later. At 14 years old, Dominique Moceanu was the youngest person in the 1996 US Women's Olympic Gymnastics team, the first in support of American women's team to consider yellow metal at the Olympics. Her pixyish appearance and ferocious competitive drive quickly attained her the position of advertising darling. But behind the fame, the perfect floor regimens, and the million-dollar giggle, her life was a series of difficulties and hardships. Off Balance vividly delineates each one of the dominating characters who added to Moceanu's popularity, from her persistent father and long-suffering mom to her mercurial trainer, Bela Karolyi. Here, Moceanu finally stocks the haunting reports of competition, her many years of hiding injuries and pain out of fear of retribution from her instructors, and how she hit rock bottom after a general population battle with her parents. But medals, murder plots, drugs, and daring escapes besides (all of which figure into Moceanu's outstanding trip), the most unique facet of her life is the family magic formula that Moceanu discovers, beginning a new and unexpected chapter in her adult life. A inexplicable notice from a stranger uncovers that she has another sister - delivered with a physical impairment and distributed at labor and birth - who may have nonetheless used in Moceanu's footsteps in an amazing way. A multilayered memoir that transcends the world of sports, Off Balance will touch whoever has ever before dared to dream of a much better life.
