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Olympic gold medalist Mary Lou Retton has been battling severe pneumonia in a hospital intensive care unit, daughters of the famed American gymnast said. A Tuesday post on a crowd-funding page by Retton's daughter, McKenna Kelley, characterized the Hall of Fame gymnast as being critically ill. Another daughter confirmed the illness to NBC News. On the crowd-funding site, McKenna Kelley wrote: 'My amazing mom, Mary Lou, has a very rare form of pneumonia and is fighting for her life.
A native of West Virginia, she lives in Houston. In the crowd-funding statement, linked from her verified Instagram account, Kelley made an appeal for help with Retton's hospital bills, saying she does not have medical insurance. 'ANYTHING, absolutely anything, would be so helpful for my family and my mom,' she wrote. Retton became the first American woman to win a gold medal in gymnastics with her victory in all-around at the 1984 Summer Games in Los Angeles.
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