Suni Lee won the gold medal for the American team.
Tokyo (Associated Press)-On July 29, in the women’s gymnastics all-around competition at the Tokyo Olympics, Suni Lee of the US team won the championship and became the first Hmong American to win a gold medal.
Lee took advantage of two errors made by Brazilian player Rebecca Andrade to knock her out with a score of 57.433.
Carissa Moore won the gold medal for the American team.
Carissa Moore won her first Olympic surfing gold medal on July 27th-she is the only Native Hawaiian surfer at the Olympics.
28-year-old Moore, the darling prodigy who can beat a boy and grow into the youngest world surfing champion, persevered after struggling in the preliminary rounds.
“These days are crazy,” Moore said. “It’s kind of like a roller coaster emotion, just trying to find the time to rest, find my rhythm, and learn how to trust myself without my family.”
The relatively mild beach rest conditions are very different from the world-class waves she is accustomed to as a professional tour veteran and her home in Hawaii. In the end, the methodical and well-loved surfer finally kept pace with the ocean in time and demonstrated the outstanding performance that defined her career.
In the first two days of Moore’s victory, the Filipino-American Lee Kief defeated the defending Russian champion Derragazova 15-13 in the women’s foil final, and won the third gold medal for the US team at the Tokyo Olympics. The third fencing gold medal in the history of China.
She tore off her mask after the last point and shouted: “Oh my God!” She finished fifth in the 2012 London Olympics and tenth in the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics.
Lee Kiffer won the gold medal for the US team.
Kiefer was the first American to win an individual gold medal in foil, the first Asian American woman to win a gold medal in fencing, and the second woman in American history to win a gold medal in fencing. The first was Mariel Zagunis in 1904.
Kiefer is a four-time NCAA champion at the University of Notre Dame and is now a medical student at the University of Kentucky. Her husband Gerek Meinhardt won the bronze medal in foil with the US team at the 2016 Olympics.
“I share this incredible feeling with my coach, my husband, my family, and everyone involved,” she said, with her gold medal hanging around her neck. “I wish I could cut it into small pieces and distribute it to everyone I love.”
