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Suni Lee was oh so close to not competing in the Paris Olympics last year.
In April 2023, Lee announced that she was going to end her Auburn career due to a kidney issue, and Auburn doctors would not clear her.
Lee gained 45 pounds, her eyes were “swollen shut,” and she “couldn’t do a flip.”
“My fingers were so swollen, they wouldn’t fit into my grips, and I couldn’t hold on to the bar,” she said back in November 2023.
“Oh my gosh, they have been so amazing, and they have brought me to so many amazing places as well, and having that relationship is just so fun. I feel like every time we are with them, we are all having such a great time, and they are genuinely such great people, so it is a great relationship.”
Lee admitted that she didn’t start to feel 100% normal until after the Olympics.
“We were still trying to figure everything out, get into the routine, learn how my body was able to adjust to the medicine the time changes and the traveling it was just a lot going on all at once. Plus, being stressed and overwhelmed definitely didn’t help. But yeah, I would say things definitely calmed down afterwards, and now I am able to just kind of live my life a little bit more normal I just have to go to my doctor every couple of months, but I take my medicine every single day. I am in a routine now.”
By going to Paris, she doubled her medal count and etched herself into ESPY history.
Fox News’ Connor McGahan contributed to this report.
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