Olympian and West Virginia native Mary Lou Retton is continuing to recover from ongoing health issues that left her “fighting for her life” about seven months a
Mary Lou Retton celebrates her balance beam score at the 1984 Olympic Games, Aug. 3, 1984 in Los Angeles.. Retton, 16, became the first American woman ever to win an individual Olympic gold medal in gymnastics. The gymnastics legend said doctors still don’t know exactly what is causing her issues.
“My lungs are pretty scarred up and they’re gonna stay that way forever,” Retton said in the CNN report. “I’m not a really depressed person, but this experience really changed me , and I’ve been struggling with that.”to help pay for medical bills which has since raised nearly $460,000. Retton told CNN all of the money donated to her has been put toward her treatment.
The Fairmont, W.Va., native captured the nation’s attention at the 1984 Summer Olympics when she won the all-around gold medal in gymnastics, making history as the first American woman to do so. Retton also won two silver medals and two bronze medals during the Olympics. The performance landed her Sports Illustrated Magazine’s Sportswoman of the Year and a flurry of national attention.
The gymnast went on to work in television and was inducted into the International Gymnastics Hall of Fame in 1997.
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