Team gymnastics final is tonight, Americans are favored, as usual these days. You’ll be seeing a lot of moves go by in a blur, so in February we went to St. Paul to visit Suni Lee so we could shoot high-speed footage of a new and risky move she’s been working on. It’s so risky she may not do it tonight in the team competition. She may hold off until the individual competition or the apparatus final so the only risk is to herself. I you get a chance, check it out.

Here is a risky a risky beam mount that she may or may not use this week. Watch how still her head is when she’s upside down over the beam. Seems to defy gravity. Her coach told me that the centrifugal force of her legs keeps her head from falling down on the beam.

And from the end.

A few shots from the making of.

7 responses to “The time we spent with Suni Lee”

  1. Annie in Maine Avatar
    Annie in Maine

    Here’s a link to the wonderful interactive. It might make it easier for some people to see.

    https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/07/27/world/olympics/suni-lee-gymnastics-bars.html

    Let’s go Suni Lee!

  2. Great article Joe! Also yesterday’s piece about Suni’s journey post-Tokyo was really something.

  3. That move is almost as impressive as the multiple nicknames I never knew you had.

    Actually, that move is sick!

    JFilz

  4. OlympicSpectatorWannabe Avatar
    OlympicSpectatorWannabe

    Awesome work by you, your team and Suni! I am also impressed with all of your nicknames. Maybe we should start using some of them.

  5. someonesgottakeepitreal Avatar
    someonesgottakeepitreal

    Thanks for keepin it real, Annie in Maine!

    Jim (Keepin’ It Real)

  6. someonesgottakeepitreal Avatar
    someonesgottakeepitreal

    And those were just the names suitable for a family publication.

  7. Fantastic article!

    Abby

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