Team USA gymnast Suni Lee is locked-in ahead of the balance beam final at the Tokyo Olympics.
After she won gold in the women’s individual all-around gymnastics final last Thursday, followed by a bronze medal in the women’s uneven bars final on Sunday, Lee will compete in the balance beam final on Tuesday — without much of a social media presence.
USA Gymnastics confirmed both Lee and Simone Biles will compete in the beam final, marking Biles’ first event since she paused her Olympic run to focus on her mental health last week.
To ensure that she’s fully prepared for Tuesday’s event, the 18-year-old Lee said she plans to “stay off social media for a little bit.”
“I’ll probably cool down a little bit and just focus on what I need to do especially because we’re coming to the end,” Lee told reporters on Sunday. “I want to just do the best I can and end it off good.”
“I’m probably going to delete Twitter,” she said, admitting, “Instagram is not as bad because I can’t really see what people say, but [on] Twitter it’s just so easy to see everything. So I’m probably going to have to end up deleting that.”
Lee’s account is still active as of Monday morning, where she sent a brief message congratulating American teammate Jade Carey on winning gold in the floor competition.
“I’M SO PROUD. so deserving,” the Missouri native wrote with crying and heart emojis.
Lee noted that TikTok is her “getaway app,” adding, “It’s just so fun.”
Lee said she “put too much pressure” on herself and “got distracted and lost focus a little bit when I won the gold medal” — which contributed to her mistakes on the apparatus in the women’s uneven bars final on Sunday, her signature event.
“This medal probably means more to be than the all-around gold medal did, just because bars is my thing,” she said after winning bronze. “To mess it up like this, I was just kind of sad about it.”
“There were so many times in my bar routine where I could have just gave up and jumped off but I didn’t and now I have a bronze medal,” she said. “I thought I was done.”