Olympic Champion Sunisa Lee Adds Bronze on Uneven Bars

Sunisa Lee of Team United States competes in the Women's Uneven Bars Final on day nine of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games at Ariake Gymnastics Centre in Tokyo, Japan, on Aug. 1, 2021. Maja Hitij/Getty Images

TOKYO—Sunisa Lee came to Japan to win a gold medal. And she did. Just not the one she really, really wanted.

The 18-year-old from Minnesota is a revelation on uneven bars, where her routines are an intricate series of connections and releases completed with so much ease it looks like she’s making it all up on the fly.