Suni Lee, Team USA's first Hmong American Olympian, becomes the fifth-consecutive American gymnast t
On July 29, Suni Lee, the 18-year-old Minnesota native dazzled judges and took home Olympic gold for Team USA in the artistic gymnastics women's all-around final. Lee is the latest American woman to win the contest, continuing a winning streak for Team USA started in 2004 by Carly Patterson. Since then, Nastia Liukin, Gabby Douglas and Simone Biles — the latter of whom dropped out of this year's event citing her mental health — have all continued it.
Sunisa Lee's family may have been cheering her on from a distance — but that didn't stop them from celebrating her gold medal win.
The Team USA gymnast won the women's gymnastics individual all-around on Thursday, and nobody was as excited as her family.
While watching together at home, NBC cameras captured the moment when Lee's family — including her father, who has been one of her biggest supporters -— realized that the gymnast would have enough points to land her on top of the leaderboard. Immediately, the entire room erupted in celebration, as her loved ones began jumping up and down and screaming. "The people i do it all for," Lee wrote on Twitter in response to the heartwarming clip. "I LOVE YOU ALL."