Sunisa Lee wins all around gold , Tokyo Replays
Suni Lee has kept the American streak alive. Coming into these Games, an American woman has won the women s gymnastics allaround title in each of the last five Olympic Games. She totaled for gold, holding off Brazil s Rebeca Andrade and ROC s Angelina Melnikova Lee joins U. S. greats Mary Lou Retton (1984), Carly Patterson (2004), Nastia Liukin (2008), Gabby Douglas (2012) and Simone Biles (2016) as the only U. S. women to win the allaround title at the Olympic Games. Lee is the first Hmong American gymnast. Andrade s medal is the first for a South American woman in the women s allaround final. Prior to Thursday, the best finish by a Brazilian woman was Jade Barbosa s 10th place finish in 2008. News from the Olympic world: Subscribe hit the bell: Exclusive documentaries: Replays from, Tokyo2020:
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