Former U.S. gymnastics coach Bela Karolyi dies at 82

(Photo credit: Kirby Lee-Imagn Images)
Former USA Gymnastics coach Bela Karolyi, who helped American Mary Lou Retton and Romanian Nadia Comaneci become gold medalists, has died at the age of 82.

USA Gymnastics said that Karolyi died Friday, but the organization did not reveal a cause of death.

Karolyi guided a then-14-year-old Comaneci to gold at the 1976 Games in Montreal, five years before he and his wife defected to