“I want to tell Simone that she truly is the gold because let my baby girl bring me a gold medal.” -Suni Lee’s father
The 18-year-old U.S. gymnast turned in a goosebump-inducing performance to take home the gold in Tokyo in the women's all-around competition on Thursday, making sure the gold would stay with Team USA after defending champion Simone BilesLee finished with a final score of 57.44 to top Brazil's Rebeca Andrade , with the Russian Olympic Committee's Angelina Melnikova taking third.
"I always knew she had the potential," Olympic gold medalist Dominique Moceanu said on TODAY after Lee's victory."Suni Lee is amazing. She has come to the Olympics and done her job. I'm so, so excited that everyone got to see what she's made of and she's capable of." Lee entered the final event, the floor exercise, with a slight lead over Andrade, 43.733 to 43.632, with Urazova in third at 43.566. Lee rose to the occasion with a 13.700 in her floor routine, once again exceeding her qualifying score with the gold medal on the line.Andrade needed a 13.802 to overtake Lee in the floor exercise and finished with a 13.666. Lee was left fighting back tears when she realized she had stamped herself as the best all-around gymnast in the world.
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