What to Know About Gymnast Sunisa Lee, Team USA's 5th Straight Olympic All-Around Champ

Just months before Lee's big breakthrough at the 2019 national championships, her family suffered a devastating accident. Her father fell while helping a neighbor trim a tree and was severely injured, to the point of paralysis from the waist down.

Although she "really wanted to stay home with [her] dad," as she told Bleacher Report, Lee ultimately made the decision with her coaches and her family to compete. "I just told myself that I'd been working so hard and I wouldn't want to just give up on it," Lee said. "I just went to championships . . . and competed for my dad and not for myself."