TOKYO — Suni Lee picked up where Simone Biles left off.
Lee won the Olympic all-around title Thursday night, the fifth consecutive American woman (and sixth overall) to claim gymnastics’ biggest prize, joining Carly Patterson, Nastia Liukin, Gabby Douglas and Biles as Olympic gold medalists, Lee’s victory provided a bright spot in what has been a tough week for the U.S. women.
Biles was heavily favored to become the first woman in more than a half-century – Czechoslovakia’s Vera Caslavska in 1968, for you trivia buffs – to repeat as Olympic champion, having not lost an all-around competition since 2013.