Suni Lee was ready to quit gymnastics amid an ongoing battle with kidney diseases. Her decision to not give up has paid off in gold and bronze medals.
As little as an hour before Suni Lee stood on the third step of the Olympic all-around podium, Jess Graba couldn’t imagine this moment. In December, the coach’s star pupil was “rotting” in her bedroom, mourning the gymnast she used to be and uncertain about the woman she would become after two kidney diseases morphed her body beyond recognition. On the first day of August, Lee was an Olympic all-around medalist again. “Not many people train for seven months for a medal,” Graba said.
Lee had the highest floor score of the three to win bronze by 0.123 points. “She's just such a fighter,” Graba said. “I always bet on her. I told her that too: I'll always put my money on you, because you always fight.” When she woke up one morning last year with her face swollen beyond recognition and her joints unable to move, Lee was panicked. The culprit, doctors found, was a pair of kidney diseases that, had they gone untreated, could have led to kidney failure.
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