Current:Home > Contact-usOlympic gymnastics champion Mary Lou Retton is in intensive care with pneumonia-DB Wealth Institute B2 Expert Reviews
Olympic gymnastics champion Mary Lou Retton is in intensive care with pneumonia
View Date:2024-12-23 21:00:40
Olympic gymnastics champion Mary Lou Retton has pneumonia and is in intensive care in a Texas hospital.
Retton’s daughter, McKenna Kelley, shared Retton’s condition in an Instagram post on Tuesday. 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.
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 U.S. 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.
veryGood! (6219)
Related
- Kyle Richards Shares an Amazing Bottega Dupe From Amazon Along With Her Favorite Fall Trends
- 2024 Olympics: Rower Lola Anderson Tearfully Shares How Late Dad Is Connected to Gold Medal Win
- Paris Olympics: Simone Biles, Team USA gymnastics draw record numbers for NBC
- Pennsylvania’s long-running dispute over dates on mail-in voting ballots is back in the courts
- Georgia lawmaker proposes new gun safety policies after school shooting
- Stephen Nedoroscik’s Girlfriend Tess McCracken Has Seen Your Memes—And She Has a Favorite
- USA's Suni Lee didn't think she could get back to Olympics. She did, and she won bronze
- Say Goodbye to Frizzy Hair: I Tested and Loved These Products, but There Was a Clear Winner
- Jamie Lee Curtis and Don Lemon quit X, formerly Twitter: 'Time for me to leave'
- Olympic female boxers are being attacked. Let's just slow down and look at the facts
Ranking
- US Congress hopes to 'pull back the curtain' on UFOs in latest hearing: How to watch
- Jailer agrees to plead guilty in case of inmate who froze to death at jail
- Behind the lines of red-hot wildfires, volunteers save animals with a warm heart and a cool head
- Team USA rowers earn first gold medal in men's four since 1960 Olympics
- Stressing over Election Day? Try these apps and tools to calm your nerves
- How high can Simone Biles jump? The answer may surprise you
- Court filings provide additional details of the US’ first nitrogen gas execution
- Donald Trump’s gag order remains in effect after hush money conviction, New York appeals court rules
Recommendation
-
Gossip Girl Actress Chanel Banks Reported Missing After Vanishing in California
-
West Virginia Republican Gov. Jim Justice in fight to keep historic hotel amid U.S. Senate campaign
-
The Daily Money: Rate cuts coming soon?
-
Marketing firm fined $40,000 for 2022 GOP mailers in New Hampshire
-
Steelers shoot for the moon ball, but will offense hold up or wilt in brutal final stretch?
-
Cardi B Is Pregnant and Divorcing Offset: A Timeline of Their On-Again, Off-Again Relationship
-
Horoscopes Today, August 1, 2024
-
Remember the ice bucket challenge? 10 years later, the viral campaign is again fundraising for ALS