Olympic Gold Medalist Laura Wilkinson Dives Right In

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f you follow the Olympics, you probably remember the 1984 Summer Games. Who can forget the thrill of seeing 16-year-old Mary Lou Retton winning the gymnastics all around, along with four other gold medals? One of the millions who watched that performance was 7-year-old Laura Wilkinson. "I watched the '84 Olympics and I wanted to be Mary Lou," she remembers. "I was dead set from when I was 7 that I was going to be in the Olympics." But three months before her Olympics trials as a diver, disaster struck.

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LadyVee on Sat Avg 2, 2008 4:35 EDT	Reply	0
To have the privilege of helping him onstage is overwhelming. I wish you could see what happens in the audience when we tell them that he had a fall and that he has had memory loss.	Please Sign In


LadyVee on Sat Avg 2, 2008 4:35 EDT	Reply	-5
To have the privilege of helping him onstage is overwhelming. I wish you could see what happens in the audience when we tell them that he had a fall and that he has had memory loss.	Please Sign In


LadyVee on Sat Avg 2, 2008 4:35 EDT	Reply	+8
To have the privilege of helping him onstage is overwhelming. I wish you could see what happens in the audience when we tell them that he had a fall and that he has had memory loss.	Please Sign In