It was 12:30 a.m. in Paris before the women’s gymnastics team finals at the , and Sunisa “Suni” Lee was at the tail end of a mental breakdown.“It’s like a ritual,” the 21-year-old Glamour Woman of the Year says over Zoom from her apartment in Minnesota.
If Lee doesn’t have a good cry the night before a competition, she says, people close to her know something is really wrong.
Jordan Chiles must have forgotten that part of her Olympic Village roommate’s routine. “She was like, ‘I’m gonna go get Simone.’”Yes, .
Not many people would wake up the most decorated gymnast in history (herself a past Woman of the Year) to deliver a pep talk the night before her own highly publicized Olympic return.
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