Suni Lee adds to her Paris medal count, taking bronze on the uneven bars
4 months, 2 weeks ago

Suni Lee adds to her Paris medal count, taking bronze on the uneven bars

LA Times  

U.S. gymnast Suni Lee celebrates after winning the bronze medal on the uneven bars at the Paris Olympic Games on Sunday. Olympics How Suni Lee overcame kidney diseases to go from bedridden to Olympic medalist Suni Lee was ready to quit gymnastics amid an ongoing battle with kidney diseases. So everything that I’m doing now, I’m like, wow, this is just so much better than last time and gymnastics is a lot more fun.” After being diagnosed with two kidney diseases and hearing she would never do gymnastics again, Lee has taken a mindset of gratitude for the Paris Olympics. Suni Lee wins an uneven bars bronze medal with a fantastic routine in the final!

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Sunisa Lee couldn’t get out of bed in December. Now she has three Olympic medals in Paris
4 months, 2 weeks ago

Sunisa Lee couldn’t get out of bed in December. Now she has three Olympic medals in Paris

Associated Press  

PARIS — There is a freedom that Sunisa Lee feels when she’s on the uneven bars that’s hard for her to describe. “I just have to keep reminding myself that I wasn’t even supposed to be here,” Lee said. Like a couple months ago, we didn’t even think this was a possibility.’” The 21-year-old who wasn’t sure she’d ever get …

Suni Lee Takes Bronze On Uneven Bars At Paris Olympics
4 months, 2 weeks ago

Suni Lee Takes Bronze On Uneven Bars At Paris Olympics

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING It was worth the wait. Suni Lee was the final gymnast to perform on the uneven bars final Sunday at the Paris Olympics ― and she deftly added to her medal haul in the City of Light. With a routine that drew loud applause and smiles from the athlete, Lee took bronze behind the gold of Algeria’s …

Suni Lee clinches another Olympic medal as Ryan Gosling and Eva Mendes make rare public appearance to watch USA gymnast take bronze in uneven bars
4 months, 2 weeks ago

Suni Lee clinches another Olympic medal as Ryan Gosling and Eva Mendes make rare public appearance to watch USA gymnast take bronze in uneven bars

Daily Mail  

Suni Lee added another medal to her collection when she took home bronze in the women's uneven bars final on Sunday. In the crowd, Lee received support from Ryan Gosling and Eva Mendes, who made a rare public appearance to cheer her on. Suni Lee took home a bronze medal in the women's uneven bars final on Sunday Ryan Gosling …

How Suni Lee overcame kidney diseases to go from bedridden to Olympic medalist
4 months, 3 weeks ago

How Suni Lee overcame kidney diseases to go from bedridden to Olympic medalist

LA Times  

As little as an hour before Suni Lee stood on the third step of the Olympic all-around podium, Jess Graba couldn’t imagine this moment. Only her.” Lee’s miraculous comeback continued Thursday in the women’s all-around final, where she took the bronze medal. “I wanted to just prove to myself that I could do it,” Lee said, “because I didn’t think …

For Suni Lee, a triumphant Olympic medal caps an improbable comeback
4 months, 3 weeks ago

For Suni Lee, a triumphant Olympic medal caps an improbable comeback

New York Times  

PARIS — A little more than a year ago, her body beaten down by two kidney diseases and her psyche in shambles, Sunisa Lee found herself confronting a horrible thought that kept nagging at her. Biles’ fight back Thursday in the women’s all-around competition to win gold stole the headline, but Lee’s fight to win the bronze at the 2024 …

Meet Suni Lee, the USA gymnast who fought back from career-threatening kidney disease to clinch gold at Paris Olympics
4 months, 3 weeks ago

Meet Suni Lee, the USA gymnast who fought back from career-threatening kidney disease to clinch gold at Paris Olympics

Hindustan Times  

When Suni Lee was diagnosed with two incurable kidney diseases in 2023, it felt like she was going to have to bid goodbye to the one thing she loved with all her heart — gymnastics. US' Sunisa Lee competes in the balance beam event of the artistic gymnastics women's team final during the Paris 2024 Olympic Games A year later, …

Gold medalist Suni Lee is back at the Olympics. A team doctor helped make it so
4 months, 4 weeks ago

Gold medalist Suni Lee is back at the Olympics. A team doctor helped make it so

New York Times  

It was nearing 11 p.m., the end of a long, arduous day that brought to an end the long, arduous Olympic trials that, for Sunisa Lee, served as the culmination of a long and impossibly arduous journey back to herself. Still shaking her head in disbelief and near teary-eyed that a double-barrel diagnosis of dueling kidney diseases had not ended …

Gymnastics Paris Olympics trials: Suni Lee’s comeback was even more amazing than Simone Biles’.
5 months, 3 weeks ago

Gymnastics Paris Olympics trials: Suni Lee’s comeback was even more amazing than Simone Biles’.

Slate  

For American gymnastics fans seeking a less dramatic 2024 quadrennial after the lasting trauma of the Tokyo Olympics, those hopes were summarily decimated as not one, not two, but three presumptive stars of the Paris squad went down one after another with injuries during last week’s Olympic Trials in Minneapolis. Joining the always dominant Biles—who, despite two shaky beam routines, …

Reigning Olympic champion Sunisa Lee overcomes health issue to compete at U.S. Gymnastics Championships
1 year, 3 months ago

Reigning Olympic champion Sunisa Lee overcomes health issue to compete at U.S. Gymnastics Championships

The Hindu  

Strictly going by standings, reigning Olympic gold medalist Sunisa Lee finished last at the U.S. Championships — yet ask anybody who knows her and they will view those results in a completely different light. “I’m beyond proud of her that she was able to come out here and show what she did,” said Jordan Chiles, Lee’s good friend and runner-up …

Olympic champion Sunisa Lee adds bronze on uneven bars
3 years, 4 months ago

Olympic champion Sunisa Lee adds bronze on uneven bars

Associated Press  

TOKYO — Sunisa Lee came to Japan to win a gold medal. “Bars is something I really cherish,” Lee said while wearing shoes borrowed from American teammate Jade Carey because she forgot the ones that come with the U.S. uniform back at the hotel. “So when I mess it up, it really sucks.” Even if Lee’s definition of “mess it …

American gymnast Sunisa Lee takes Olympic gold
3 years, 4 months ago

American gymnast Sunisa Lee takes Olympic gold

Associated Press  

TOKYO — Sunisa Lee wanted to quit during quarantine. “It’s crazy,” Lee said after winning the Olympic all-around title following a tight duel with Brazil’s Rebeca Andrade. “It doesn’t seem like real life.” Even though the pain in Lee’s foot eased — funny how it seemed to get better the more she trained — she arrived in Japan figuring her …

‘I didn’t think I would ever be here,’ says Sunisa Lee after winning ‘surreal’ all-around gymnastics gold at the Tokyo Olympics
3 years, 4 months ago

‘I didn’t think I would ever be here,’ says Sunisa Lee after winning ‘surreal’ all-around gymnastics gold at the Tokyo Olympics

CNN  

Ariake Gymnastics Centre, Tokyo CNN — After a turbulent few years, Sunisa Lee can now call herself an Olympic gold medalist. Lee, who extends the USA’s run of Olympic gold medals in the event to five, scored 57.433 as teammate and 2016 all-around champion Simone Biles watched on from the stands. Martin Bureau/AFP/Getty Images In pictures: Suni Lee wins gymnastics …

Olympics: Suni Lee wins the gymnastics all-around gold medal
3 years, 4 months ago

Olympics: Suni Lee wins the gymnastics all-around gold medal

LA Times  

When Suni Lee first showed interest in gymnastics, her father, John, built her a wooden balance beam in the family’s backyard in St. Paul, Minn., because they couldn’t afford to buy one. John and her mother, Yeev were thousands of miles from Ariake Gymnastics Centre on Thursday when 18-year-old Suni seized the lead after the third of four rotations and …

Opinion: Suni Lee earned her glory in the hardest of ways
3 years, 4 months ago

Opinion: Suni Lee earned her glory in the hardest of ways

CNN  

Editor’s Note: Amy Bass is a professor of sport studies at Manhattanville College and the author of “One Goal: A Coach, a Team, and the Game That Brought a Divided Town Together” and “Not the Triumph but the Struggle: The 1968 Olympics and the Making of the Black Athlete,” among other titles. Amy Bass Courtesy Rodney Bedsole The headlines before …

2021 Olympics: With Simone Biles out, Suni Lee wins all-around gold
3 years, 4 months ago

2021 Olympics: With Simone Biles out, Suni Lee wins all-around gold

New York Times  

American Sunisa Lee won gold in the women’s gymnastics all-around final at the Tokyo Olympics on Thursday as her teammate and defending champion Simone Biles cheered her on from the sidelines. The 18-year-old Lee captured the gold with a strong floor routine in the final rotation, finishing with a total score of 57.433. The whole season, I’ve been second to …

Sunisa Lee Claims Olympic Gold And Shows U.S. Gymnastics Has More Than 1 Superstar
3 years, 4 months ago

Sunisa Lee Claims Olympic Gold And Shows U.S. Gymnastics Has More Than 1 Superstar

NPR  

Sunisa Lee Claims Olympic Gold And Shows U.S. Gymnastics Has More Than 1 Superstar Enlarge this image toggle caption Ashley Landis/AP Ashley Landis/AP TOKYO — Sunisa Lee has won Olympic gold in the marquee individual competition of women's gymnastics after U.S. star and heavy favorite Simone Biles pulled out to take care of her mental health. Enlarge this image toggle …

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