Olympic gymnastics legend Mary Lou Retton has been charged with driving beneath the affect in West Virginia.
Retton, 57, was stopped in Marion County, West Virginia, on Could 17 and charged with one misdemeanor rely of “driving beneath affect of alcohol, managed substances, or medication,” online court records present.
Retton was launched the day of her arrest after posting $1,500 bond.
She has not but issued a plea, court docket information present.
Former Olympic gymnast Mary Lou Retton arrives for the Fanatics Tremendous Bowl Social gathering, Feb. 4, 2017 in Houston, Texas.
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Retton’s lawyer, Edmund J. Rollo, declined to touch upon the case when reached Tuesday by ABC Information.
Retton’s arrest comes two years after the gold-medal profitable gymnast overcame what she would later describe as a life-threatening battle with pneumonia that required an almost two-week keep within the intensive care unit.
In an interview final Could, Retton said she was nonetheless struggling issues from the 2023 well being scare that left her hospitalized.
“I nonetheless have a tough time respiratory and getting breath to talk,” Retton informed “Leisure Tonight,” including on the time that she remained on supplemental oxygen. “I am a speaker [and] I have never been in a position to actually work as a result of I do not know if I can rise up on stage and do an hourlong discuss like I’ve usually accomplished for 40 years. That is irritating. It has been arduous, I’ve to say.”
Retton mentioned within the interview that she battled a “uncommon type of pneumonia.” Pneumonia is a sort of lung an infection that may be brought on by quite a lot of components, resembling micro organism, fungi, a parasite or a virus, according to the Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention.
Throughout her sickness, Retton’s four daughters arrange a web based fundraiser for her medical payments. The fundraiser drew some criticism, with some folks questioning why a legendary athlete who was as soon as the duvet star for Wheaties’ boxed cereal would fall on arduous monetary instances.
“They had been simply making an attempt to deal with me,” Retton informed “ET” of her daughters’ fundraising efforts.
Noting that she lacked medical health insurance when the fundraiser was began, Retton mentioned in response to the criticism, “You are welcome to, you recognize, your opinion. However you were not in that scenario. My daughters stepped as much as the plate they usually saved my life.”
Retton is most well-known for her efficiency within the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, the place she scored a sequence of excellent 10s to grow to be the first-ever American to win an Olympic particular person all-round gold.
Retton additionally gained two further silver medals and two bronze medals on the Los Angeles Olympics, making her essentially the most embellished athlete of that Olympics, according to her official Olympics biography.
Retton has remained an iconic American sports activities hero within the many years since and was inducted into the Worldwide Gymnastics Corridor of Fame in 1997.
In 2018, Retton competed on season 27 of ABC’s dancing competitors present “Dancing with the Stars.”
