subscribe @worldwidezone98
2024 Olympics: Gymnast Suni Lee Explains Why She Fell Off Balance Beam
Team USA gymnast Suni Lee shared why she and teammate Simone Biles fell off the balance beam during the Aug. 5 competition explaining that the arena was just too quiet.
Turns out quiet makes Suni Lee feel off balance.
The Team USA gymnast—who has won two bronze medals and one gold medal at the 2024 Olympics—shared what caused her and fellow teammate Simone Biles to fall off the balance beam during their Aug. 5 competition in Paris.
“It was really silent when you get up there,” Suni told reporters afterwards . “I don’t like that just because it gives me too much time to think and I can hear everything.”
The mix of stress and quiet caused issues for the gymnasts, including Romania’s Sabrina Voinea, who also fell.
“I like the cheering,” the 21-year-old continued. “I don’t like the silence. I don’t like it. I thrive off the crowd, so having the crowd’s energy especially after you finish a routine is really helpful.”
Suni joked that she could “literally hear myself breathing,” and was more stressed about the fact that “everybody could hear me breathing when I was up there.”
Simone doubled down on how the quiet impacted her.
“Beam final is always the most stressful,” she told reporters via NBC News. “But usually, we have like music or background noise, whatever that may be.”
According to the 27-year-old, the gymnasts “do better in environments when there’s noise going on because it feels most like practice.”
“It was really weird and awkward,” she continued, “and we’ve asked several times if we could have some music or some background noise. So I am not really sure what happened there, but yeah, not our favorite. None of us liked it. Yeah, it was an odd beam final.”
But not everyone had issues with the balance beam, as Team Italy’s Alice D’Amato took home the gold while Zhou Yaqin of China earned silver and Italian gymnast Manila Esposito walked away with bronze.
And luckily the Olympians are keeping a sense of humor about their falls, with Suni even playing into a TikTok trend and sharing a video of her mishap Aug. 6 with the caption, “unfortunately i was selected for the olympics.”
But Suni was feeling celebratory on Instagram, sharing several photos of her Olympics journey Aug. 5 and writing, “2x olympian, 6x olympic medalist.”
…………………
Gymnast Suni Lee Reveals WHY She & Simone Biles Fell Off Balance Beam | 2024 Olympics | E! News
Paris Olympics update | Simone Biles and Suni Lee fall on balance beam, Scottie Scheffler wins gold
Simone Biles FALLS Off Beam At Paris Olympics Before Winning Silver In Final Floor Event
Simone Biles criticizes ‘weird and awkward’ atmosphere for missing beam medal
Suni Lee on her history-making run at the 2024 Olympics
E! News Now, OLYMPICS, PARTNER AMAZON, SIMONE BILES, SIMONE_BILES, TOP STORIES, WOCHIT, E! NEWS NOW, SUNI LEE, SUNI_LEE, SILENCE, ENERGY, ROUTINES, TEAM USA, TEAM_USA, GYMNAST, FALL, SPORTS, SPORTS NEWS, NBC NEWS, NBC_NEWS, BALANCE BEAM, BEAM ROUTINE, GYMNASTICS, TEAM USA GYMNASTICS, TEAM_USA_GYMNASTICS, SOCIAL MEDIA, VIRAL, TIKTOK, YOUTUBE, TREND, TRENDS, TIKTOKR, YOUTUBER, INFLUENCER, ATHLETES, CELEBRITY, CELEBRITIES, CELEB, CELEBS, ACCIDENT, FAIL, INTERVIEW, E!, MISHAP, ATHLETE A
[ olympics, sports ], paris 2024, paris olympics, olympics 2024, paris olympics 2024, 2024 olympics, team usa, olympics 2024 paris, nbc olympics, nbc sports, summer olympics, olympic highlights, olympic highlights today, suni lee, simone biles, womens gymnastics, gymnastics highlights, suni lee highlights
simone biles, goat, greatest of all time, gymnast, olympian, olympic games, 2024 paris olympics, 2024 paris, paris olympics, simone biles balance beam, balance beam, olympics balance beams, us womens gymnastics, olympics, paris olympics live stream, paris olympics gymnastics, paris 2024 olympics highlights, paris 2024 olympics, olympic sports highlights, summer olympics, nbc olympics, olympics 2022, olympic gold medal winners
espn, sports
abc, abcnl, biles, bronze, gymnastics, lee, medals, news, olympics, p_cmsid=2494279, p_vid=news-112583255, paris, simone, suni
#sunilee #simonebiles #olympicgames #olympics #olympics2024 #usanewstoday #usanewstoday #usatoday #usa #us #unitedstates #americanews #american #america #exclusive #exclusivenews #gossip #usa #gossipnews
