Norway women's beach handball team fined for choosing shorts over bikini bottoms

Sport: Gymnastics

Events: Specialties include uneven bars and balance beam

Olympic experience: None

Can anyone really challenge Simone Biles, the American gymnast with no less than four moves named after her, in Tokyo? Perhaps Sunisa Lee can. An incoming freshman at Auburn, Lee outscored Biles overall on the last day of the U.S. Olympic trials, the first time that has happened since 2013.

Olympic women's gymnastics has a way of creating stars, in part based on history (Nadia Comaneci, Mary Lou Retton, Gabby Douglas, Biles, to name a few) and in part based on the way they soar through the air and contort their bodies at such a young age. The storytellers at NBC won't have to dig too deep to craft a compelling narrative for Lee, 18. She broke her foot last year, an injury that would have ended her Olympic dreams if they weren't postponed and added some drama to this year's Games. She lost an aunt and an uncle to COVID-19, and her father was injured in a fall and paralyzed from the chest down the day before she left for the 2019 national championships.

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