Editing Nadia Comăneci (section)

===1977–1979===
Comăneci successfully defended her European all-around title at the championship competition in 1977. When questions were raised at the competition about the scoring, Ceaușescu ordered the Romanian gymnasts to return home. The team followed orders amid controversy and walked out of the competition during the event finals.<ref name=Fischer/><ref>Comăneci, pp. 61–62.</ref>

Following the 1977 Europeans, the Romanian Gymnastics Federation removed Comăneci from her longtime coaches, the Károlyis, and sent her to [[Bucharest]] on August 23 to train at the sports complex. She did not find this change positive and was struggling with bodily changes as she grew older. Her gymnastics skills suffered, and she was unhappy to the point of losing the desire to live.<ref name=Fischer/><ref>Comăneci, pp. 64–68.</ref> After surviving a suicide attempt,<ref>{{cite web |title=Comaneci Confirms Suicide Attempt, Magazine Says |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1990-02-19-sp-869-story.html |work=Los Angeles Times |date=February 19, 1990}}</ref> Comăneci competed in the [[1978 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships|1978 World Championships]] in [[Strasbourg]] "seven inches taller and a stone and a half [21 pounds] heavier" than she was in the 1976 Olympics.<ref name=guardian20111214/> A fall from the uneven bars resulted in a fourth-place finish in the all-around behind Soviets [[Elena Mukhina]], [[Nellie Kim]], and [[Natalia Shaposhnikova]]. Comăneci did win the world title on beam, and a silver on vault.<ref name=guardian20111214/>

After the 1978 "Worlds", Comăneci was permitted to return to Deva and the Károlyis' school.<ref>Comăneci, pp. 68–72.</ref> In 1979, Comăneci won her third consecutive European all-around title, becoming the first gymnast, male or female, to achieve this feat. At the [[1979 World Championships in Artistic Gymnastics|World Championships]] in [[Fort Worth]] that December, Comăneci led the field after the compulsory competition. She was hospitalized before the optional portion of the team competition for blood poisoning, which had resulted from a cut in her wrist from her metal grip buckle. Against doctors' orders, she left the hospital and competed on the beam, where she scored a 9.95. Her performance helped give the Romanians their first team gold medal. After her performance, Comăneci spent several days recovering in All Saints Hospital. She had to undergo a minor surgical procedure for the infected hand, which had developed an [[abscess]].<ref>[http://www.gymn-forum.net/Articles/Misc-Comaneci-1979.html "Nadia."] ''The Epistle,'' (All Saints Episcopal Hospital), January 1980.</ref><ref>Comăneci, pp. 87–91.</ref><ref>''Little Girls in Pretty Boxes.'' Ryan, Joan. 1995, Doubleday. {{ISBN|0-385-47790-2}}.</ref>