U.S. Gymnastics Star Sunisa Lee: Poised for Gold?
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🗓️ 26 July 2021
⏱️ 37 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Alyssa Ronic, we just watched the U.S. women's gymnastics team struggle more than we're used to in its first qualifying event in Tokyo. |
| 0:10.4 | And so now, right under the microscope, right alongside Simone Biles, is her teammate, Sunni Lee, a young gymnast that you spent a lot of time with for a profile you're reported. |
| 0:22.2 | So from that experience, what makes you think that Sunni is ready for all of this pressure? |
| 0:29.0 | Well, there were two moments. I think the first is just watching what she did at trials under the most extreme pressure. |
| 0:37.1 | All right. Over to one of the stars as well. |
| 0:39.0 | You expect her to be on the team. |
| 0:40.8 | Sunni Lee, the 18-year-old from St. Paul, Minnesota. |
| 0:45.2 | And what she has been doing at Meats for the past two years. |
| 0:49.2 | She's a maister on this event, but I tell you, this routine is so tricky. |
| 0:54.9 | She not only flies so high like this skill right here, look at that. |
| 1:00.0 | But there was also a moment in my reporting at Trials in St. Louis. |
| 1:04.1 | I spent a lot of time with her family, and I really wanted to see how they interact with each other. |
| 1:14.0 | We were about a half hour away from the venue at Her Folks Hotel. And they said, why don't you hop in the minivan with us and we'll |
| 1:17.9 | all drive together over to the venue. And I'm sitting in sort of the middle row of the white |
| 1:24.6 | sienna minivan and mom is driving. It's rush hour traffic and dad is talking to |
| 1:32.4 | Cheyenne who's sitting on my left, her sister and her four-year-old brother is sitting on the left |
| 1:36.8 | of her and he is just scream yelling his favorite lines from SpongeBob Squarepants and the other |
| 1:42.6 | two siblings are sitting in the back and they're watching YouTube videos very loudly |
| 1:45.8 | and it's just complete chaos. |
| 1:48.7 | I happen to catch her mom's eyes |
| 1:50.9 | in the rear view mirror |
| 1:52.4 | and she looks at me and says |
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