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Watching Mary Lou Retton perform a perfect 10 was as exciting as seeing the Super Bowl...
...during the Olympics I delighted in watching my children play Mary Lou Retton and Bart Conner...
...Eleven) Corp.'s $1.2 million gift, every medal-winning Olympian was allowed to invite one guest on the caravan, and their choices were telling. Jeff Blatnick, the nation's most renowned Greco-Roman wrestler, asked Andrew Saris, the last man cut from the squad. Mary Lou Retton, whose gymnastics career required her to leave home two years ago, reached back to Follansbee, W. Va., for her old friend Lori Lombardi. Cyclist Steve Hegg's neighbor Doug Huffman used to pace him tirelessly in Dana Point, Calif. They went together to the parade...
...stop. Then the Dallas barbecue was a hazard only to gymnasts: for them, just to whiff Texas barbecue is to risk going to bed as Nadia Comaneci and waking up as Shelley Winters. Finally, a little regretfully, the team disbanded. "Celebrity's been a big change for me," Retton said. "In a way it's really neat. But it won't change me. I'm still just plain Mary Lou. Meeting the President was neat. I'm a little sad it's over after nine years. Now I'd like to get into...
Less than ten years ago, Benoit's and Retton's careers might well have been cut short by the disorder. Their knees could have required exploratory surgery just to diagnose the problem. Open-knee surgery would have meant at least a week's hospital stay and eight to twelve weeks of rehabilitation. In contrast, arthroscopy, which costs around $1,500 to $3,000, the same as open-knee surgery, necessitates at most an overnight hospital stay, and patients are usually on their feet the next...