More on Octavian Belu (also spelled Bellu):
[quote]Before the 1997 World Championships in Lausanne, the coaches turned the heat on even more, and one day during training disaster struck. Alexandra's team mate Corina Unugreanu was struggling on her beam mount (a RO-rulfova) and was wincing from the blows it struck in the genital area." Octavian Belu started beating her. He was hitting her without any restraint, as if she were an animal. She kept failing and every time she was trying to repeat she was getting hurt even more in that area. Belu was looking at her coldly and he didn't care about her suffering. He only knew one thing: the exercise had to be perfect and anything else didn't matter. At one of the repetitions, Corina got so hurt that she started bleeding. None of us had the courage to tell Octavian Belu to stop hitting the gymnast. Everything went on like that until Corina, between two slaps, told Belu that she was bleeding. But his reaction was still icy: "What's wrong? You're bleeding? You deserve it! Move back on the beam and do it again!". In the end, Belu's co-coach Mariana Bitang came to Ungureanu's aid and stopped the beating.[/quote]
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Good for Leonid Arkaev.
