Wedding Day
To celebrate their wedding, they flew across the Atlantic Ocean to be married back in Romania. Nadia wasn’t sure how the population would receive her, especially after having defected to the U.S. It really surprised her when 10,000 people came to greet her.
The Whole Nation
They were married in 1996, and the day was marked as a national holiday and their wedding was televised across the country. Many people even referred to their wedding as “the royal wedding of sport” due its great exposure.