Word: retton
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Dates: during 1984-1984
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...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...
Both athletes chose arthroscopy, partly because it offered at least an outside chance of competing in Los Angeles. The decision was wise: both went on to earn gold medals in their events, Benoit by winning the first women's Olympic mara thon and Retton by beating out the top Rumanian and Chinese gymnasts for the all-around championship...
...Retton flew to St. Luke's Hospital in Richmond for the surgical procedure. Benoit stayed in Eugene, where on April 25 in Sacred Heart General Hospital she was placed under general anesthesia. Surgeon James made a ¼-in. incision in her right knee and inserted a thin tube through which a saline solution was injected to flush away pieces of tissue and distend the joint. He then made another small cut and inserted the arthroscope, a 10-in.-long instrument as thin as a drinking straw, with optical fibers on its tip that throw a bright light inside...
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...