Eye on the Prize: A spotlight on American swimmer Simone Manuel (swimone), gymnast Sunisa Lee (sunisalee_), and sprinter Noah Lyles (LylesNoah) ahead of the Olympic Games
Don’t forget: Even though they are poised to take place in 2021, the Olympics that we’ve all been waiting for are still the 2020 Olympics. From the perspectives of the athletes, it’s as if they’ve been at the starting blocks all along, waiting to burst out, to dive or mount, throw or take one long last leap.
A gymnastics version of that happened to 18-year-old Sunisa Lee, who goes by Suni. A veteran of the U.S. team that won the gold at the 2019 world championships in Stuttgart, Germany, Lee was practicing her uneven-bar magic at her gym in the suburbs of St. Paul one day and doing Zoom workouts at home the next. Time stood still—until it didn’t. “It’s crazy how fast the time has gone,” she says.
The pool’s owners donated its daily use to Manuel and her former Stanford teammate Katie Ledecky, but the initial rush of fortunate feelings gave way to more complicated emotions in the shut-down world. “Sometimes I felt a little guilty,” Manuel recalls. “It was hard doing it knowing that the Olympics were postponed. You go through these roller-coaster emotions—you’re thinking, Ah, it’s another year to get better, and the next you’re like, But I was ready for it right now.
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