Sunisa Lee feels free whenever she competes on the uneven bars but the Olympic star adds that's hard for her to describe.
For nearly one year Lee was literally and figuratively off the bars.A health related struggle to treat her kidney diseases that she finally got under control led her weight to fluctuate wildly.
At one point, the 2020 Olympic champion believes she put on 45 pounds. However during the month of December, she was bedridden.
Her last time around, after earning a bronze on bars, she responded by 1vowing to reach the top of the podium in Paris.
Now she is a champion in the eyes of the world.
She won the bronze again, this time in an electric bars final on Sunday was in some ways as sweet as any individual honor she's achieved in a career that now has six Olympic medals and counting.
The 21-year-old can tie Shannon Miller for the second-most Olympic medals by a American gymnast behind good friend Simone Biles if she finishes in the top three in the balance beam final tomorrow. Stay tuned.
According to AP, Lee said “I feel like I’m doing so much better this time around,” Lee said. “And even having the girls, like we really could not be here without each other and just having the support and being able to lean on each other has been incredible.”
“You never know what can happen,” she said. “So just keep reaching for your dreams.”