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Reminiscing on Mary Lou Retton and Ed Etzel's Olympic accomplishments
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (WV News) — It was Aug. 3 in the Orwellian year of 1984, a time not unlike today, 40 years later, with the world as badly divided and seeking a hero. It was an Olympic year, as it is now. Four years earlier, in 1980, the United States had …