Olympic gymnast Suni Lee’s dad couldn't afford a balance beam, so he built her one.
John Lee said he has always seen greatness in his daughter, gymnast Sunisa “Suni” Lee.
"She goes to the gym and she practices but we don't have a beam here. So I couldn't afford a real beam, so I built her one." It was especially emotional for him as it was one of the few times he has been able to see his daughter compete in person since a 2019 accident. Two days before Suni competed at the U.S. National Gymnastics Championships in August that year, John fell off a ladder while helping a neighbor trim a tree and was paralyzed from the chest down.
The gymnast said she struggled with the difficult past year during a rise in anti-Asian hate, wondering why “people hate on us for no reason.”John told"TODAY" that before his accident, he always told his daughter that if she got into the Olympics, he would “run out there and do a backflip.”When asked about his secret to raising an Olympian, he says, it’s all Suni.
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