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Dan Wetzel
July 29, 2021, 11:02 AM
TOKYO Simone Biles sat in the front row of the Ariake Gymnastics Centre stands, looking down on the Olympic women’s all-around competition that everyone, including the competitors themselves, expected her to dominate.
For eight years Biles was undefeated, a stretch that included five world all-arounds and the 2016 Olympic gold medal. Her brilliance knew no bounds. The degree of difficulty she could bring to a meet made her nearly invincible.
“Coming into this competition I didn’t even think I could be competing for a gold medal,” said Sunisa Lee. “I was competing for a silver medal.”
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A father s love and the embrace of an immigrant community: the improbable story of Sunisa Lee s gold medal
Dan Wetzel
July 29, 2021, 10:24 AM
TOKYO Sunisa Lee was standing in the middle of Ariake Gymnastics Centre, standing on the verge of Olympic glory, standing 90 seconds from fulfilling a goal that seemed impossible from her first tumbles as a 6-year-old daughter of immigrants in Minnesota until, well, about 48 hours ago.
John Lee was sitting half a world away watching his 18-year-old daughter on television, sitting in the wheelchair that has mostly confined him since an accident left him partially paralyzed, sitting in the middle of a watch party for the local Hmong community where moments like this Olympic greatness simply don’t happen.