“It would be cool to show that we are more than what they say. ![]() “People hate on us for no reason,” Lee says from her parents’s house in St. Now Lee, whose parents emigrated from Laos, is also fighting to qualify as the first-ever Hmong American Olympic gymnast-all while her community contends with a national surge in anti-Asian violence. While training for a wildly unpredictable games, Lee has been caring for her recently paralyzed father, mourning the deaths of her aunt and uncle due to COVID, and recovering from a broken foot that jeopardized her lifelong dream to win gold. The 18-year-old gymnast is poised to make history at the summer Olympics, but over Zoom, she’s just like any other teenager, reflecting on everything she’s balancing behind the scenes. It’s a late afternoon in April, and Sunisa “Suni” Lee is where most people find themselves a year into the pandemic: home, in a sweatshirt, talking into a webcam. Read about the newest all-around champion, below: ![]() ![]() woman to place first in the event.īack in May, profiled Lee on her journey to the Olympics. The 18-year-old Team USA star, who already made history this year as the first-ever Hmong American Olympic gymnast, dominated the competition to win gold in the all-around, the fifth straight U.S. ![]() When she exited to focus on her mental health, the competition suddenly opened up again-and Sunisa Lee rose to meet the challenge. Simone Biles, by all accounts the greatest gymnast of all time, was all but guaranteed a gold medal in the individual all-around at the Tokyo Olympics.
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