Sunisa Lee takes home bronze in uneven bars for Paris Olympics
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Sunisa Lee adds another medal from the 2024 Paris Olympic Games as she takes the bronze medal in the uneven bars. Lee won bronze on that apparatus at the Tokyo Games in 2021.
Lee scored 14.800 in the uneven bars event. Algeria’s Kaylia Nemour took gold with a score of 15.700, while China’s Qiu Qiyuan claimed silver with a 15.500.
Kaylia Nemour of Algeria delivered the country’s first gold medal in gymnastics, putting together a thrilling routine in the uneven bars final on Sunday to outscore Qiu Qiyuan of China.
Lee was second on the apparatus in the all-around competition, won by Biles in impressive fashion on Thursday.
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Since being an Olympic champion in 2021, Lee dealt with two kidney diseases that caused her constant pain and nausea, made her weight fluctuate and led her to contemplate retiring from gymnastics entirely.
Instead, the 21-year-old regained her motivation, stayed in the gym and is back atop her game. After helping Biles and the U.S. women win team gold and taking bronze in the all-around competition in Paris, Lee's count for Olympic medals is now at six; two gold, a silver and three bronze medals.
Lee’s six medals leave her one behind Shannon Miller for the second most by an American gymnast. Lee could match Miller in the balance beam final on Sunday.
Nemour is French and still trains in France but switched to compete for Algeria following a dispute with the French gymnastics federation and Nemour’s club of Avoine Beaumont, which has led the gymnast to embrace her father’s Algerian nationality.
The 17-year-old is a wonder on bars, swooping from one to the other with a series of releases and intricate hand maneuvers that are both athletically and technically demanding.
Nemour needed to rely on all those skills to edge Qiu, who put on a clinic during her set. Her legs were practically magnetized together during her routine and she was so straight on her handstand she looked like a ruler. Qiu hugged her coaches after her dismount and the crowd erupted when her 15.5 was posted.
Nemour scored 15.700.
While Nemour competes under a different flag — she draped the Algerian banner behind her after clinching her victory — she was very much on home soil. A raucous ovation followed after she won the first-ever gymnastics medal for Algeria.
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