Another U.S. Olympian’s return to the Games is the sport’s story of the year.
Suni Lee after her uneven bars routine on Day Four of the 2024 U.S. Olympic Team Gymnastics Trials at the Target Center on Sunday in Minneapolis.with injuries during last week’s Olympic Trials in Minneapolis. Yes, the grueling two-meet competition had its redemptive moments—more on those in a moment—but for the most part, it was an abject bloodbath, and I, for one, have aged approximately 900 years in less than a week because I watched.
This is all tragic. Blakely, DiCello, and Jones deserve a place in the 2024 cycle. Remember their names; I hope they’ll be back. Luckily, enough athletes were left standing to field a stellar Olympic team favored for gold in Paris. The five-woman Olympic squad includes four Tokyo veterans whose names you might recall.
Lee was, in fact, only medically cleared to return to training in anything resembling Olympic seriousness in January of this year. This is unheard of. It means she made the Olympic team, in a sport that usually requires years of intense and meticulously timed preparation at the elite level, after six months. If this is possible for you to wrap your head around, gymnastics requires a particular combination of delicacy and rigor in training that is difficult for those outside the sport to fathom.
But that doesn’t mean it wasn’t emotional. It was! When NBC correspondent Zora Stephenson asked the newly crowned Team USA for their real-time reactions to being on the roster, Lee broke down in the middle of the word “.” And so did the rest of us. Again, I hold Simone Biles’ comeback after 2021 in the highest possible esteem, and always will.
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