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Nancy J. Treat Morgantown, W. Va...
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Retton seemed fated for gymnastics since she was a toddler in Fairmont, W. Va. "I was one of those hyper kids, always jumping up and down on the couch and breaking things," she says. In self-defense her parents sent her off to an acrobatics class. At first, she went to the gym just once a week, but, she says, "I just got better and better, and so the people who ran the acrobatics class decided to start a gymnastics club so I could train to see if I could keep improving." By 14, she knew she could strike...
Mary Lou had to prove it during the weeks leading up to the opening ceremonies. In June, torn cartilage caused her knee to lock. She flew to Richmond, Va., for eleventh-hour arthroscopic surgery to remove three fragments that had drifted under her patella. Doctors operated at 8 a.m., making three small incisions to remove the cartilage, clear the blockage and restore flexibility to the joint. At 7:30 p.m., she boarded a plane to Houston; the next morning, she was in the gym riding an exercise bike. Exactly two weeks after the surgery, she was flying through...