Mary Lou Retton captivates the nation with a gold medal in the 1984 Summer Olympics

Eyewitness News digs into the archive, remembering the summer of 1984 when Fairmont, West Virginia native Mary Lou Retton captivated the nation’s attention by capturing a gold medal in gymnastics.
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[@MichaelCrouch-qp4wy]

I remember reading an article about Mary Lou Retton receiving so much media attention and publicity about Mary Lou! people were getting tired of her on TV. I never got tired of MLR.

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I giving like and am a roumanian...

[@sorinrusu1022]

Oh! ,I forget, I was with Nadia