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When he fell on the landing of his second vault attempt, three-time world champion Marian Dragulescu of Romania did not only lose a medal; his hopes faded for his sick daughter.
Dragulescu said before leaving for Beijing that he was determined to win gold for his three-years-old daughter, Beatrice, who could not hear or speak.
He badly needed the bonus promised by Romanian authorities to gold medalists; he had to pay for his daughter’s surgery in Austria.
