Suni Lee won her second medal in the Paris games today coming in third in the all-around individual women’s gymnastics competition.
It was a 1-3 finish for Team USA with Simone Biles winning her second gold in the all-around competition. She’s the third woman in history to ever do that.
Both Biles and Lee also won a gold with Team USA in the women’s team competition held earlier this week.
Biles eked out a narrow victory over Brazil’s Rebeca Andrade who took the silver, USA Today reported.
Lee and Biles jointly raised the U.S. flag together in victory.
Lee guaranteed herself a medal after her performance on the floor exercise. Judges gave her a 13.666, slightly more than the 13.535 she needed to guarantee victory, according to NBC. She is the first gold medalist in her field to return to the next Olympics to win a medal since Nadia Comaneci of Romania in 1976 and 1980.
It culminates an amazing comeback for Lee who battled back from kidney disease to return to the Olympics.
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