The 18-year-old star shared hugs and tears of joy with her parents and siblings on the TODAY plaza in their first time together since she brought home gold from Tokyo.
Lee is the first Hmong American gymnast to qualify for the Olympics and the first Asian American woman to win gold in the all-around.Her parents and siblings were delirious with excitement when Lee added a gold medal to the silver she won in the team competition. She later added a bronze medal on the uneven bars.
She enjoyed a triumphant moment on Thursday when she placed two of her medals around the necks of her mother and father on TODAY and hugged them tight. "Oh my God. I never thought I would ever get one of these, and she did it," John said."She got it, she brought it home.""It's like happy tears," her mother said."Just thinking of all the hard work that she has done in the past four years and every time she has a bad day and she comes home crying, and that kind of hurts me, and so to see her with the gold medal, it just makes me happy.
"This has been our dream forever," Suni said."I wish he was here. He always told me if I win the gold medal he would come out and do a backflip. It's sad that he can't be here and he still may not be able to walk, but this is our dream and this our medal." "That beam was built out of a piece of wood. I never thought I'd be wearing one of these because of that beam," John said on TODAY Thursday."It's just incredible. And I love that beam now."Scott Stump is a New Jersey-based freelancer who has been a regular contributor for TODAY.com since 2011, producing news stories and features across the trending, pop culture, sports, parents, pets, health, style, food and TMRW verticals.
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