Olympic champion Sunisa Lee said a kidney issue will end her college gymnastics career early. The Tokyo gold medalist in the all-around said the “non-gymnastics related” medical concern won’t stop her from “pursuing my dreams for a bid to Paris in 2024.”
from their name, image and likeness, Lee won a 2022 national championship in the beam and came in second in the all-around. In what Auburn described as the most decorated year in program history, she also earned eight all-American honors, an SEC title in the uneven bars and recognition as the conference’s freshman of the year.
Lee’s final appearance for Auburn came in February, when she finished first in the all-around, vault and uneven bars at a meet against Georgia. “Auburn, thank you for the best 2 years of my life and for giving me the opportunity to make history alongside this amazing group,” Lee wrote Monday. “I am forever grateful for this community.”Adding that it had been “challenging to end my Auburn career early,” Lee wrote that she “will not stop pursuing my dreams for a bid to Paris in 2024.”
If Lee is able to get to Paris as a member of Team USA, it will be her second appearance in the Olympics. A native of St. Paul, Minn., she helped her country win team gold at the 2019 world championships in Stuttgart, Germany, where Lee also won a silver medal in the floor exercise and a bronze in the uneven bars.
“As an athlete that has competed at the highest level on the world’s biggest stage, I’ve been fortunate enough to experience that once-in-a-lifetime feeling and the indescribable emotion when the gold medal is draped around your neck,” Lee said in November of her success in Tokyo. “But I don’t want it to just be once in a lifetime.”
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