Suni Lee is opening up on over the summer about the 2024 U.S. women’s gymnastics team.
In a new interview with , Lee took the high road while expressing how Skinner’s words affected her and her teammates. “We have a lot of love for her, but it’s frustrating to see her put us down because she knows, basically, about every single thing that we’ve all been through,” she said. Over the summer, Skinner spoke out about the newly minted team ahead of the 2024 Paris Olympics and implied that the members weren’t as talented as previous gymnasts representing the U.
S. “Besides Simone (Biles), I feel like the talent and the depth just isn’t like what it used to be,” she said in a video . “I mean, obviously a lot of girls don’t work as hard.
” The video has since been deleted, and Skinner on Instagram in July. Lee, who competed alongside Skinner and Biles at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, referenced her own while commenting on Skinner's remarks. “It was more annoying because of all the things that I’ve been through," she told Glamour.
Lee was diagnosed with an incurable kidney disease in 2023 after she started to experience abnormal swelling all over her body. In April 2024, Lee revealed that her condition was in remission. While speaking with Glamour, she noted that she "went into a relapse" a week before the Olympic trials.
Biles seemed to in July when she posted a photo of the gymnastics team celebrating their win in the team competition. “Lack of talent, lazy,.