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17-07-2025
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Suni Lee discusses Olympic return after kidney disease diagnosis, ESPYs Comeback Athlete nomination
Print Close By Ryan Morik Published July 17, 2025 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. CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON In a recent interview with Fox News Digital, Lee actually "quit" gymnastics "a couple times." "I told my coach I don't want to do this anymore… There were many times where I didn't want to do this anymore, or I just doubted myself more in the process. I think even as close as like Olympic Trials I was doubting myself," Lee said. However, after going through an incredible grind, Lee was in Paris and won three medals - the entire team won gold, and Lee herself went bronze in the all-around and uneven bars. More recently, she was nominated for, and won, the Best Comeback Athlete at the 2025 ESPYs on Wednesday night. "It is incredible, and it is such a surreal feeling just because I know how hard the journey was, so to be here is pretty incredible on its own, and I am just really excited for tonight and to be with the other nominees," Lee said. In attending the award show, she teamed up with Raising Cane's, who helped her get ready for the occasion. OLYMPIC MEDALIST DIES IN TRAGIC LIGHTNING STRIKE DURING TRIP "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." CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP By going to Paris, she doubled her medal count and etched herself into ESPY history. Fox News' Connor McGahan contributed to this report. Follow Fox News Digital's sports coverage on X, and subscribe to the Fox News Sports Huddle newsletter. Print Close URL
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14-05-2025
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Dwyane Wade casts doubt on legitimacy of NBA Draft Lottery amid rigging speculation: 'It's a business'
Print Close By Ryan Morik Published May 14, 2025 The cries of a rigged NBA Draft Lottery are loud and clear once again. The Dallas Mavericks, with a 1.8% chance of earning the top pick months after trading away star Luka Doncic, came away with the right to draft Duke's Cooper Flagg. This, of course, is not the first time there have been suspicions: There's the frozen envelope theory from 1985 for the New York Knicks to get Patrick Ewing; the Cleveland Cavaliers got the No. 1 pick when the top prospect was a local kid named LeBron James (same with the Chicago Bulls and Derrick Rose in 2008); and many believe the San Antonio Spurs were gifted Victor Wembanyama in 2023. CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON Well, Hall of Famer Dwyane Wade didn't exactly shut down any ongoing speculation. "It's a business," he said in a recent interview. Wade, of course, would not go out and say it is for sure rigged, "because I'm not a witness in it." "But this is a business that we are a part of. And I think people forget that in the competition of sports and what we love, because we grow up playing sports, and it's not a business when we grow up. But when you're in the NBA, it's a business. And the business has to do its best job to make sure that, you know, it's taken care of," he said. SUNS' KEVIN DURANT ISSUES 8-WORD POST AFTER SHOCKING NBA DRAFT LOTTERY RESULTS James himself and former teammate Kevin Love couldn't help but laugh at the Mavs winning the lottery. The Spurs received the No. 2 pick, the Philadelphia 76ers will pick third and the Charlotte Hornets will have the fourth pick. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP After Flagg, the two top prospects are considered to be freshmen from the Rutgers Scarlet Knights — Ace Bailey and Dylan Harper. Fox News' Ryan Gaydos and The Associated Press contributed to this report. Follow Fox News Digital's sports coverage on X, and subscribe to the Fox News Sports Huddle newsletter . Print Close URL
