Karolyi Camps: 2000 v. 2003

I have a thought/question about the training camps.

I've read from several gymnasts that the camps in 2000 were more brutal and negative that the later ones in the 2002-2004 time period.

Moceanu (OK I know some will take what she says with a grain of salt) said she was humiliated for he weight. Atler (again, some might not consider her reliable) called them "unbearable." But most interestingly, I was reading an interview with Shannon Miller from 2004 and she even said the difference in the camps between 2000 and 2003 was "night and day." I feel strongly that Dantzcher would have choice things to say, although she is kind of from the anti-Karolyi camp.

But seriously... what can we make of this? Does anyone think there's some truth to this and could the difference be Bela v. Marta? Do you think "choice" athletes (i.e. Johnson & Liukin) could "opt out" out of doing some of the extra sets and repetitions and that their coaches could kind of "overrule" the Karolyis because they were too valuable to lose to injury?