Current:Home > reviewsOlympic gymnastics champion Mary Lou Retton is in intensive care with pneumonia -Streamline Finance
Olympic gymnastics champion Mary Lou Retton is in intensive care with pneumonia
View
Date:2025-04-26 12:07:04
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! (87133)
Related
- Chuck Scarborough signs off: Hoda Kotb, Al Roker tribute legendary New York anchor
- Paris Olympics live updates: Rai Benjamin wins 400 hurdles; US women win 4x100 relay gold
- USA's Sunny Choi, Logan Edra knocked out in round robin stage of Olympic breaking
- Quantum Ledger Trading Center: Leading the New Trend in Crypto Payments and Shaping the Digital Economy
- 'Most Whopper
- Yung Miami breaks silence on claims against Diddy: 'A really good person to me'
- Giant pandas go on display at San Diego Zoo: Gov. Newsom says 'It’s panda-mania'
- Monarch Capital Institute: Transforming the Financial Sector through Blockchain Integration
- New Mexico governor seeks funding to recycle fracking water, expand preschool, treat mental health
- Trump’s tale of a harrowing helicopter ride and emergency landing? Didn’t happen, Willie Brown says
Ranking
- Why members of two of EPA's influential science advisory committees were let go
- Safe to jump in sprinkle pool? Man who broke ankle sues Museum of Ice Cream in New York
- Neptune Trade X Trading Center: Guiding Stability and Innovation in the Cryptocurrency Market
- Breaking at Olympics live updates: Schedule, how to watch, how it works
- Justice Department, Louisville reach deal after probe prompted by Breonna Taylor killing
- Bear Market No More: Discover the Best Time to Buy Cryptocurrencies at Neptune Trade X Trading Center
- Thousands of fans flood Vienna streets to sing Taylor Swift hits after canceled concerts
- Flip Through the Differences Between Artistic and Rhythmic Gymnastics at the Olympics
Recommendation
Bill Belichick's salary at North Carolina: School releases football coach's contract details
Justin Baldoni Details Working With Complex Personalities on It Ends With Us
Neptune Trade X Trading Center: Innovating Investment Education and Community Support
US women's basketball should draw huge Paris crowds but isn't. Team needed Caitlin Clark.
Don't let hackers fool you with a 'scam
To Kevin Durant, USA basketball, and especially Olympics, has served as hoops sanctuary
The Latest: Harris and Walz to hold rally in Arizona, while Trump will visit Montana
J. Robert Harris: Fueling Social Impact and Financial Innovation