The former star of the sport is in intensive care suffering pneumonia, her family said.
Kelley said the 55-year-old Retton, who became the first American woman to win the Olympic all-around title, is "fighting for her life" and not able to breathe on her own.American gymnastics great Mary Lou Retton reacts to applause after her performance at the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles
Kelley started a fundraising campaign on Retton's behalf for medical expenses. Kelley wrote that Retton does not currently have medical insurance. Retton was 16 years old when she became an icon of the US Olympic movement during her gold medal-winning performance at the 1984 Summer Games in Los Angeles.
Retton, who grew up in Fairmont, West Virginia, also won two silver and two bronze medals at those Olympics to help bring gymnastics — a sport long dominated by eastern European powers like Romania and the Soviet Union — into the mainstream in the U.S. Retton, a mother of four, currently lives in Texas. She retired from competitive gymnastics in 1986 and did numerous commercial endorsements.US gymnast Mary Lou Retton helped break the East European dominance of the sport. She and her husband, Shannon Kelley, divorced in 2018.
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