Mary Lou Retton arrested, charged with DUI

FAIRMONT, W.Va. -- Gymnastics icon Mary Lou Retton faces a misdemeanor complaint of driving nether the power pursuing her apprehension successful her West Virginia hometown.

Fairmont constabulary stopped Retton connected May 17 pursuing a study astir a idiosyncratic successful a Porsche driving erratically. According to the transgression complaint, Retton smelled of intoxicant and was slurring her words, and she failed a tract sobriety test.

Officers besides reported observing a instrumentality of vino successful the rider seat.

Retton, 57, refused a roadside enactment trial and a humor test. She was released from custody aft paying a $1,500 idiosyncratic recognizance bond.

Her lawyer listed successful tribunal records, Edmund J. Rollo of Morgantown, did not instantly respond to telephone and email requests from The Associated Press seeking comment.

Retton was 16 erstwhile she became the archetypal American pistillate gymnast to triumph the all-around astatine the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics. She besides won 2 metallic and 2 bronze medals to assistance bring gymnastics into the mainstream successful the United States.

In 2023, Retton's household disclosed she was recuperating from a uncommon signifier of pneumonia that landed her successful intensive care. Doctors recovered her oxygen levels dangerously low. Her aesculapian squad considered putting her connected a ventilator arsenic her conditioned worsened. Retton went connected oxygen attraction and, aft weeks successful the hospital, improved capable to beryllium sent home.