The 2024 Paris Olympics may still be 6 months away, however after scrolling through gold medalist Suni Lee’s Instagram the other day, we can’t stop hoping that it would come simply a little quicker.
On January 23, the 20-year-old Olympic gymnast published a carousel of 4 brief videos of her training. And they’re … quite remarkable. In each, Lee carries out a release relocation from the irregular bars utilizing a reverse grip, captures some major air, turns, and after that twists totally before capturing the bar back overhand.
Lee delicately dropped the videos uncaptioned, however Olympics.com filled out the blanks for us: The relocation, which has actually never ever been effectively carried out before in a ladies’s gymnastics occasion, is called the full-twisting design Jaeger. If Lee can land it in global competitors– state, at the Paris Games– it’ll be permanently called the Lee. According to a video published by Creative Gymnasticsthe Lee is a total 360-degree variation of the extended Jaeger, which is called the Cappuccitti (called after Canadian gymnast Stephanie Cappuccitti, who initially landed that ability).
It’s such a tough combination that even other top-of-the-game gymnasts were shocked. “I did this as soon as … then I awakened,” LSU gymnast Olivia Dunne commented. “Are u even genuine!!! Amazing!!!” 2020 Olympian Mykayla Skinner composed.
After getting back from the Tokyo Games with some major hardware–well-rounded goldgroup silver, and irregular bars bronze– Lee went on to contend for Auburn University. She assisted her group to the last 4 of the 2022 NCAA Women’s Gymnastics Championships for the very first time before establishing a kidney condition in February of 2023. “I kept peeling the bar. I could not hang on,” Lee informed SELF in an unique cover interview last fall. “My fingers were so inflamed, and I could not even do a typical kip cast to handstand on bars.” At the time, her physicians shut her below training and she ended her sophomore season at Auburn early.