The greatest gymnast Mary Lou Retton has ever seen is a wonder.
She has the power to get such height on the vault it seems as if she’s bungee jumping from the roof.
She has the energy to make the final tumbling pass of her boundary-pushing floor exercise – when most of her peers are breathless and counting the seconds until the music stops – as fresh as her first.
She has the poise to flip and swoop and turn on a 4-inch wide slab of wood 4-feet off the ground so fluidly it’s like an X Games version of ballet.