The Olympic gymnast’s family has an incredible story of resilience.
Hailing from St. Paul, Minnesota, the 18-year-old athlete has worked towards this moment for more than a decade and has had support from her parents—father, John Lee, and mother, Yeev Thoj—along the way. In fact, it was Suni’s dad who helped the Olympian get her start in the world of gymnastics. When she was seven,into a makeshift balance beam. It was on this homemade apparatus that Suni’s dad taught her how to do flips in their backyard.
Throughout her competitive gymnastics career, Suni has heard pep talks from her dad before taking the floor. But this routine unexpectedly changed in August 2019, just two days before she was supposed to leave for the U.S. National Gymnastics Championships. While trimming a tree, John fell from a ladder and was left paralyzed from the chest down. He also suffered aThis content is imported from Twitter.
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