Showing posts with label Mary Lou Retton. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mary Lou Retton. Show all posts

Thursday, January 24, 2008

Today in sports

Happy 40th birthday, Mary Lou Retton. It's amazing; when I was younger, I would watch hours and hours of the Olympics. Now? I can figure out that there's a Summer Olympics this year, because the year is divisible by four, but I don't have any idea where or when.

But when that little 16-year-old firecracker from West Virginia did her thing in 1984, I was into it (keep in mind, I was only 13 myself).

She even got her face on a Wheaties box. A gymnast! On a Wheaties box!