Olympic Secrets: A Father Who Tried to Assassinate His Gymnast Daughter’s Coaches

Dominique Moceanu was one of the stars of the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta, Georgia. As a member of the "Magnificent Seven," Dominique, along with her teammates, brought home the gold in the Team event, when Dominique was only 14 years old.

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Despite the media attention and fame that came to her as an elite-level athlete and gold-medal-winning Olympian, Dominique's life wasn't easy. As she explains in this clip from "The Jeff Probst Show," her father had anger issues, and her home life got so rough that, at age 17, she became legally emancipated from her parents. Then, she tells Jeff about how her father hired a hit man to kill her coaches in an attempt to get closer to his daughter!

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