Martha Karolyi News

If Martha Karolyi were a schoolgirl, she would have had a heck of a lot to put in her "How I Spent My Summer Vacation" report this past fall.

Chellsie Memmel's father and coach, Andy, gives smiley-face stickers to everyone he trains for jobs well done, and that includes his oldest daughter, who turns 20 later this month.

Whatever domestic tranquility existed inside the Constitution Center yesterday was shattered as soon as Bela Karolyi, resembling a hatless Santa with his mustachioed smile, silver hair and bright red blazer, bounded in to promote the more perfect union formed by Philadelphia and the 2008 Olympic Gymnastics trials.

No one outside of her family and friends in Needham or gymnastics' tightest circles knew too much about Aly Raisman when she competed in the 2010 American Cup at the DCU Center.