Current:Home > ContactOlympic gymnastics champion Mary Lou Retton is in intensive care with pneumonia -Edge Finance Strategies
Olympic gymnastics champion Mary Lou Retton is in intensive care with pneumonia
View
Date:2025-04-16 02:35:18
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! (2)
Related
- Juan Soto to be introduced by Mets at Citi Field after striking record $765 million, 15
- The US Appetite for Electricity Grew Massively in the First Half of 2024, and Solar Power Rose to the Occasion
- 4 killed, 10 injured when passenger van rolls several times in Texas highway crash
- Horoscopes Today, August 29, 2024
- South Korean president's party divided over defiant martial law speech
- Team USA men's wheelchair basketball opens 2024 Paralympics with win vs. Spain
- Love Is Blind’s Stacy Snyder Comes Out as Queer
- Jana Duggar Shares Peek Inside Romance With Husband Stephen Wissmann
- 2 killed, 3 injured in shooting at makeshift club in Houston
- Dancing With the Stars' Peta Murgatroyd Shares She's Not Returning Ahead of Season 33
Ranking
- NHL in ASL returns, delivering American Sign Language analysis for Deaf community at Winter Classic
- Run to Anthropologie’s Labor Day Sale for Dresses, Accessories & More Starting at $13, and up to 80% Off
- Funko teams up with NFL so you can Pop! Yourself in your favorite football team's gear
- Caroline Garcia blames 'unhealthy betting' for online abuse after US Open exit
- Don't let hackers fool you with a 'scam
- Heather Graham Reveals Why She Hasn’t Spoken to Her Parents in Nearly 30 Years
- Artem Chigvintsev's Mug Shot Following Domestic Violence Arrest Revealed
- High winds, possibly from a tornado, derail 43 train cars in North Dakota
Recommendation
$73.5M beach replenishment project starts in January at Jersey Shore
‘Crisis pregnancy centers’ sue Massachusetts for campaign targeting their anti-abortion practices
Libertarian candidates for US Congress removed from November ballot in Iowa
Investigators say dispatching errors led to Union Pacific train crash that killed 2 workers
Whoopi Goldberg is delightfully vile as Miss Hannigan in ‘Annie’ stage return
Loran Cole executed in murder of Florida State University student whose sister was raped
Why 'Reagan' star Dennis Quaid is nostalgic for 'liberal Republicans'
Krispy Kreme offers a dozen doughnuts for $2 over Labor Day weekend: See how to redeem