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- Gymnast Agnes Keleti survived the Holocaust to win 10 Olympic medals. At 98, she’s as feisty as ever. "VAN" (International Desk) :: When journalists ask Agnes Keleti about her health, she gently smiles and slowly extends her right hand in apparent gratitude for the question. Keleti yanks anyone who is foolish enough to grasp her hand with enough force to throw them off their balance. Then she replies: “I’m fine, thanks. Yourself?“ Such agility, defiance and humor are traits that helped Keleti, 98, survive the Holocaust in hiding and become Hungary’s most successful living athlete. She has no fewer than 10 Olympic medals as a gymnast — most of them won after she reached the relatively ripe age of 30. She is also the most decorated female Jewish Olympian of all time. Keleti, who left Hungary in 1957 and lived in Israel, is now celebrated as a national hero in Hungary, where she returned three years ago to be with one of her two sons. Credit :: ISRAIELNATIONAL
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