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1. Mary Lou Retton (born January 24, 1968) is an American gymnast and Olympic gold medalist. (Web site)
2. Mary Lou Retton is the only other American woman to have won the Olympic all-around. (Web site)
3. Mary Lou Retton is a self-obsessed person.
4. Mary Lou Retton (one of my cultural touchstones) was the first. (Web site)
5. Mary Lou Retton, the US Olympic gymnastics gold-medallist in the 1984 Games, told the New York Times last month: "The girls are so little, so young.

Famous American Gymnasts Mary Lou Retton

1. Liukin has secured a legacy at least alongside the sport's most famous American gymnasts — Mary Lou Retton and Shannon Miller.

United States

1. Liukin becomes the third women's gold medalist in the All-Around from the United States, joining Mary Lou Retton and Carly Patterson.

Kind

1. And Liukin has every chance of being the kind of sporting icon Mary Lou Retton became. (Web site)

Perfect

1. Mary Lou Retton of UNITED STATES was the other gymnast who has scored the perfect 10. (Web site)

Johnson

1. Johnson is the reigning world champion, a bundle of power and personality that has people comparing her to Mary Lou Retton.

Second Coming

1. Johnson is stockier, perkier, the second coming of Mary Lou Retton.

Woman

1. Johnson hopes to become the third U.S. woman to win all-around gold, joining Mary Lou Retton and Carly Patterson. (Web site)

Gymnasts

1. Summary: Describes the styles, techniques, and accomplishments of the new Olympic gymnasts, with an emphasis on Mary Lou Retton. (Web site)

Olympics

1. Her balance beam silver was Liukin's fifth medal of the Olympics, tying her with Mary Lou Retton (1984) and Shannon Miller (1992) as having.

Patterson

1. Patterson became only the second American woman to win an all-around Olympic title, joining Mary Lou Retton at the boycott-diminished 1984 Olympics. (Web site)

Gold

1. Once, in 1984, he looked at a gymnast named Mary Lou Retton, and he said this: "Now or never." And she won gold. (Web site)
2. His sister-in-law, Mary Lou Retton, captured hearts and gold at the Los Angeles Olympics in 1984. (Web site)

Carly

1. Following in the footsteps of her favorite gymnast, Mary Lou Retton, Carly won her first senior international title at the American Cup in 2003. (Web site)

Medals

1. This also ties the U.S. gymnastics record for most medals in one Olympics currently held by Mary Lou Retton (1984) and Shannon Miller (1992). (Web site)

American Women

1. Patterson was just 16 when she joined Mary Lou Retton as the only American women to win the Olympic title.

First

1. Carly Patterson became the first U.S. woman to win the Olympic all-around gymnastics gold medal since Mary Lou Retton in 1984.
2. The former gymnast, first inspired by watching Mary Lou Retton at the 1984 Games, will compete as a featherweight (117 pounds) Sunday.

All-Around Title

1. Mary Lou Retton received a perfect 10.0 on her vault at the 1984 Los Angeles Games to clinch the all-around title.

Mary Lou

1. Wyatt vaulted past his bedtime to see Carly officially become "the next Mary Lou" – as in Mary Lou Retton.

First Gymnast

1. Mary Lou Retton became the first gymnast outside Eastern Europe to win the gymnastics all-around competition.

Zmeskal

1. This gave Zmeskal the opportunity to observe and interact with her heroine, Mary Lou Retton.
2. Like Zmeskal and Mary Lou Retton before her, Johnson is a powerful tumbler. (Web site)

Kim Zmeskal

1. Kim Zmeskal was just eight years old when Mary Lou Retton won gold in Los Angeles. (Web site)
2. She packs the same kind of power that made Mary Lou Retton and Kim Zmeskal so formidable. (Web site)

First American Woman

1. His feat was reflected by the womens All Around when Carly Patterson became the first American woman to take Gold since Mary Lou Retton.

All-Around Gold Medal

1. American Shawn Johnson is trying to follow the likes of Carly Patterson and Mary Lou Retton and win an Olympic all-around gold medal in gymnastics.
2. MARY LOU RETTON took the world by storm when she won the all-around gold medal in women's gymnastics at the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles.

Americans

1. The Americans eventually came through as they produced their first Olympic champion in the form of Mary Lou Retton in 1984. (Web site)

Four Daughters

1. Mary Lou Retton resides in Houston, Texas, with her husband and four daughters. (Web site)

Scott Hamilton

1. Mary Lou Retton and Scott Hamilton are the hosts." " Frosted pink with a twist ".

Gold Medal Winner

1. The gold medal winner of the women's individual all around at the 1984 Summer Games was Mary Lou Retton of the United States.
2. Houston is renowned for its gymnastics tradition of shaping serious world-stage competitors like Mary Lou Retton, the 1984 Olympic gold medal winner.

Gold Medal

1. Mary Lou Retton won a gold medal in gymnastics at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics.

All-Around

1. Only two other American women had won the Olympic all-around before: Mary Lou Retton in 1984 and Carly Patterson, who trained at Liukin's gym, in 2004. (Web site)
2. In 2004, Carly Patterson became the second American to win an Olympic gold medal in all-around, repeating what Mary Lou Retton did 20 years earlier.
3. Gosh, a lot," Mary Lou Retton, who still has crossover appeal 24 years after she became the first American woman to win the all-around, said Saturday.

Liukin

1. Liukin now joins Mary Lou Retton, in 1984, and Carly Patterson, in 2004, as the only American all-around winners.
2. Third individual all-round gold medal won by the United States (Liukin, Patterson and Mary Lou Retton, 1984). (Web site)
3. Liukin is the reigning Olympic champion, joining Mary Lou Retton and Carly Patterson as the only American women to win the all-around title.

Five Medals

1. Liukin, who won five medals at the 2008 Olympic Games, is the second gymnast to win the award and the first since Mary Lou Retton in 1984.
2. Nastia Liukin won five medals at these games, matching the feat by Mary Lou Retton and Shannon Miller for the most in a single Olympics. (Web site)
3. She finished with five medals around her neck, joining Mary Lou Retton and Shannon Miller as the only American gymnasts to win five in one Games.

Gymnast

1. Visa has an ad that helps viewers relive the Olympics victory by US gymnast Mary Lou Retton, but its tagline, "Go World," suggests a broader view.
2. Though Carl Lewis captured more gold medals at the 1984 Games, gymnast Mary Lou Retton probably captured more hearts. (Web site)
3. Liukin won her fifth medal with a silver on balance beam to tie Shannon Miller and Mary Lou Retton for most by a U.S. gymnast in an Olympics.

Nadia Comaneci

1. Bela Karolyi, the former coach of gymnastics stars like Nadia Comaneci and Mary Lou Retton, said their size should raise a red flag. (Web site)
2. Bela Karolyi, the coach of gymnastics legends like Mary Lou Retton and Nadia Comaneci, said he thought Kim must have been younger than 11 at the time.
3. The Perfect 10 also made icons out of Nadia Comaneci and Mary Lou Retton, Karolyi's former pupils.

American Gymnast

1. She won the gold medal, an achievement that had only been attained by one other American gymnast, Mary Lou Retton, during the 1984 summer games. (Web site)

Shannon Miller

1. Liukin, Johnson's roommate, finished with five Olympic medals, tying her with Shannon Miller and Mary Lou Retton for the most ever by an American.
2. With her fifth Beijing medal, Liukin tied Mary Lou Retton and Shannon Miller for the most gymnastics medals won by an American in a single Olympic Games. (Web site)
3. She joined Mary Lou Retton and Shannon Miller as the only American gymnasts to have won five medals during a single Olympic Games. (Web site)

All-Around Gold

1. She hopes to become the third American woman, after Mary Lou Retton and Carly Patterson, to win an Olympic all-around gold. (Web site)
2. Carly Patterson becomes the second U.S. women's gymnast -- and the first since Mary Lou Retton in 1984 -- to win the all-around gold.
3. Patterson won the all-around gold at the 2004 Athens Olympics, becoming the first U.S. woman since Mary Lou Retton to win gymnastics' biggest prize.

Carly Patterson

1. Only three U.S. women have medaled in the Olympic all-around: Mary Lou Retton (1984) and Carly Patterson (2004), gold; and Shannon Miller (1992), silver.
2. Liukin joins Mary Lou Retton (1984) and Carly Patterson (2004) as the only U.S. women to win an Olympic all-around title.
3. Only two other Americans have won the all-around title in the past 24 years: Mary Lou Retton (1984) and Carly Patterson (2004).

Mary Lou Retton

1. Last summer in Beijing, Liukin became the third American woman to win an all-around gold medal, following Mary Lou Retton and Carly Patterson. (Web site)
2. Liukin is only the third American woman to win the all-around; Carly Patterson (2004) and Mary Lou Retton (1984) are the others. (Web site)
3. With a gold, three silver and one bronze medal in Beijing, Liukin tied Mary Lou Retton and Shannon Miller for most medals by an American gymnast.

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