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The long and incredible career of Martina Navratilova began in the Soviet Bloc country of Czechoslovakia, where at age 18, Czech officials demanded that she return home as the budding star was becoming too "Americanized." She didn't, and sought asylum in the U.S., and would later become a citizen.

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