I really haven't figured out what to do next year, much less 1996. I really plan to take it just one competition at a time. Considering what happened to her last weekend, these words are almost impossible to believe. Mary Lou Retton, in a telephone interview from her home in Houston, wanted to know if this was true. When she opened her newspaper Sunday morning and saw the headline about the U.S. gymnastics championships, she shook her head in wonderment.
Most gymnasts have some weak events and some strong events.
She's strong in all of them. I never did that. I think I always won a medal in each event, but I never won them all. Winning everything was not what Dawes had in mind when she arrived at the nationals. It's neat for my own self-esteem.