Mary Lou Retton

Mary Lou Retton says she was almost put on life support after health scare – National

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Before word broke that Olympic gymnast Mary Lou Retton was “fighting for her life” in hospital, the gold medallist thought she was just a “washed up, old athlete.” But when support and worry for Retton, 55, sounded from across the globe, it was impossible to deny just how beloved she really is. Now, nearly three … Read more

Mary Lou Retton Faces Long Recovery After Pneumonia Scare

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Olympic gymnastics great Mary Lou Retton said she faces a long battle recuperating at home from a rare form of pneumonia in which doctors weren’t sure whether she would survive. In an interview that aired Monday on NBC’s “Today” show, Retton said while wearing a breathing tube pumping oxygen through her nose that she was … Read more