Well, I understand that Mary Lou Retton is very sick now, and thus the praise. However, Julianne McNamara was no slouch either.
I didn’t know McNamara was from Flushing, Queens and was married to Todd Ziele.
Its kind of funny as i was at the ‘84 Olympics- i trained for the decathlon for 11 years and a lot of my buddies were on the track competing (broke my ankle in the first decathlon competition in March of ‘84 and my season was over). I also live in NY and don’t remember any sort of recognition for her the way there was for swimmer Rick Carey.