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Nadia Comaneci
Age: 47 years
The Soap opera ‘the young and the restless’ became associated with her after a TV program— ABC's Wide World Of Sports— used it as background music for montages of her routines. Composer, Barry De Vorzon, renamed it to ‘Nadia's Theme’ after her.
She wrote a book called ‘letters to a young gymnast’ and launched an album.
She launched her own music album in Bucharest.
Nadia Turner, singer and actress, and American Idol Season 4 Finalist was named after Nadia Comaneci.
Lance Armstrong
Age: 37 years
He dated singer-songwriter Sheryl Crow and the couple even got engaged before a sudden split.
He also later dated fashion designer Tory Burch, Ashley Olsen and most recently Kate Hudson.
Armstrong owns a house in Austin and a ranch in the Texas Hill Country. Neighbours of his ranch property claim that Armstrong polluted a local swimming hole when he was creating a dam on his ranch.
Since retirement, Armstrong has focused his efforts on the Lance Armstrong Foundation, which provides support for people affected by cancer, and on other interests
Sebastian Coe
Age: 52 years
Coe was featured in the Brass Eye (UK television show) spoof documentary on pedophilia unwittingly accusing American blue-eyed soul singers Hall & Oates of not only being the same person but also of being child abusers.
Post-divorce a handful of glamorous women have been seen on his arm.
He is a multimillionaire, a worldwide ambassador for Nike, owns a string of health clubs with a membership of 20,000 and is a member of the East India Club in London.
He has a very large collection of jazz records.
Steffi Graff
Age: 39 years
With her father dominating her personal life until the Graf tax scandal in 1995, Graf often declined social invitations and made few friends on tour.
Graff spent much of the 1990s in a relationship with race car driver Michael Bartels.
She eventually found that she had more in common with tennis superstar Andre Agassi, whom she married in 2001.
The couple have many homes, but prefer to spend much of their time in Las Vegas.
Mark Spitz
Age: 58 years
Spitz is a motivational speaker and travels to Japan, China, Hong Kong and most of Europe since he began in 1973. “My middle name is Mileage Plus,” he says.
His iconic moustache was his hottest feature and was seen as a sign of notoriety as most competitors opt to swim without facial hair, often shaving their bodies completely.
In 1991, he appeared for a sports event sans moustache. When quizzed about the absence on TV show he simply said, “it had become too grey.”
Chemist EH Bronner maintained that Spitz was a prophet. He is mentioned in Bronner's fifth MORAL ABC which appears on each bottle of Dr. Bronner's Magic Soap. Spitz sued Dr Bronner's over this reference.
Dara Torres
Age: 41
At 41, she’s the oldest woman to participate at the Olympics.
During her retirement from swimming she has worked as a reporter and announcer for television networks, NBC, ESPN, TNT, OLN and Fox News.
She also hosts a golf show called the Clubhouse on the Resort Sports Network.
She has been a model and in 1994 she was in the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue.
JAYNE TORVILL & CHRISTOPHER DEAN
Age: 50 years & 51 years
Dean's first ice partner was Sandra Elson. They began skating together when he was 14 and competed as ice dancers for a few years. However, despite becoming British Junior Dance champions, the team parted, as Dean and Elson did not get along well.
Dean was in the police force till 1974, when he decided to quit his job completely to concentrate on ice-skating, and so did Torvill.
Even after retiring the pair continued acted as coaches, choreographers and performers in ITV's Dancing on Ice.
They returned for a second series and third series after the 2007 & 2008 UK series of Dancing on Ice Torvill and Dean took the show on the road for a British tour.
Summer Sanders
Age: 35 years
Summer married Mark Henderson in 2001 and then World Cup skier Erik Schlopy in 2005.
Summer admitted to having a teenage crush on Kirk Cameron.
Summer published the book Champions Are Raised, Not Born: How My Parents Made Me A Success in 1999, which is a tribute to her parents.
A mother of a girl now, Summer launched the Similac Moms Alliance, an online community for moms which gives tips regarding important mothering issues.
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