US: The 2020 women’s all-around gymnastics champion Sunisa Lee recently revealed that she will return to training at the elite level following the end of her sophomore season at Auburn next spring.
The 19-year-old Lee hasn’t participated in an elite international gymnastics competition Since the Tokyo Games. She competed for Auburn in the NCAA last winter and spring, which has a different scoring structure than the Olympics and typically calls for different routines.
I don’t want it to just be once in a lifetime. I have my sights set on Paris in 2024, and I know what I have to do to get there. I’m looking forward to rolling up my sleeves and putting in the work.
Ms. Sunisa Lee shared.
In the all-around competition at the NCAA Championships in April, the champion finished second to Florida’s Trinity Thomas. She also took first place on the balancing beam title and led Auburn to its best ever team finish fourth in program history. In July, Lee took part in her first U.S. national team camp since the Tokyo Games, indicating a return to the elite level.
The American women’s gymnastics team won the world championship without Lee recently. Jade Carey and Jordan Chiles, Lee’s colleagues from the Tokyo Olympics, each won three medals at the world championships, where Shilese Jones won silver in the all-around competition.
The Next NCAA season will take place from January to April. The gymnastics champion has not stated her intentions to return to elite competition for the summer 2023 season or if it will be in 2024 prior to the Paris Games. The majority of Olympic medal-winning gymnasts returned to competition before the Olympic year. In 2018, Biles returned to competition after a two-year break. After the 2012 London Olympics, Gabby Douglas and Aly Raisman had a break before returning to competition in March 2015.