The 2024 Paris Olympics would possibly nonetheless be six months away, however after scrolling by way of gold medalist Suni Lee’s Instagram yesterday, we will’t cease hoping that it could come just a bit sooner.
On January 23, the 20-year-old Olympic gymnast posted a carousel of 4 brief movies of her coaching. And so they’re…fairly wonderful. In every, Lee performs a launch transfer from the uneven bars utilizing a reverse grip, catches some critical air, flips, after which twists fully earlier than catching the bar again overhand.
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Lee casually dropped the movies uncaptioned, however Olympics.com crammed within the blanks for us: The transfer, which has by no means been efficiently carried out earlier than in a ladies’s gymnastics occasion, is known as the full-twisting structure Jaeger. If Lee can land it in worldwide competitors—say, on the Paris Video games—it’ll be ceaselessly generally known as the Lee. Based on a video posted by Inventive Gymnastics, the Lee is a whole 360-degree model of the stretched Jaeger, which is named the Cappuccitti (named after Canadian gymnast Stephanie Cappuccitti, who first landed that ability).
It’s such a tough combo that even different top-of-the-game gymnasts had been shocked. “I did this as soon as…then I wakened,” LSU gymnast Olivia Dunne commented. “Are u even actual!!! Superb!!!” 2020 Olympian Mykayla Skinner wrote.
After coming house from the Tokyo Video games with some critical {hardware}—all-around gold, group silver, and uneven bars bronze—Lee went on to compete for Auburn College. She guided her group to the ultimate 4 of the 2022 NCAA Ladies’s Gymnastics Championships for the primary time earlier than creating a kidney situation in February of 2023. “I saved peeling off the bar. I couldn’t maintain on,” Lee advised SELF in an unique cowl interview final fall. “My fingers had been so swollen, and I couldn’t even do a traditional kip solid to handstand on bars.” On the time, her medical doctors shut her down from coaching and she or he ended her sophomore season at Auburn early.