Suni Lee qualifies to defend her Tokyo gold

PARIS, IDF —

Suni Lee qualified to defend her title in the women’s artistic individual all-around Sunday morning.

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Lee and Simone Biles will both compete for Team USA. Jordan Chiles was 0.067 points behind Lee, but only two members from each nation can qualify.

Every member of Team USA competed in the following for qualifiers:

• Women’s vault
• Women’s floor
• Women’s uneven bars
• Women’s balance beam

When Lee won the individual all-around gold medal in Tokyo, she became the first Hmong-American and Asian woman to win the title.

She also won silver with Team USA for artistic team all-around and a bronze on uneven bars.

Watch Suni Lee during podium training below.

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Lee revealed that at the height of dealing with a kidney disease last year, she questioned whether a return to top form was even possible.

“My motivation started to fall,” Lee said this week at the Team USA media summit.

“I could not bend my legs the slightest, I couldn’t squeeze my fingers, my face was swollen,” Lee said, noting she retained 45 pounds in water weight. “I looked like a completely different person. It was very, very miserable.”

She said she lived with constant pain, nausea and lightheadedness.

“We have it under control now,” she said. “We know what to do and the right medication to take.”

Lee went to Auburn University in Alabama.