TOKYO — On a night of unexpected joy mixed with unexpected disappointment, Rebeca Andrade, a gymnast from Brazil, held her gold medal in the vault on Sunday at the Tokyo Olympics and wondered if it was real. And Sunisa Lee of the United States, who won the women’s gymnastics all-around competition last week, looked back on her performance on the uneven bars on Sunday and regretted that it had indeed been real. Andrade, from a family of eight children whose mother worked as a maid, had just won the first ever gold medal for Brazil in women’s gymnastics. And now Andrade, who is being celebrated as a hero in Brazil, has accomplished more than she had ever imagined at these Olympics — or in her career, really. She has a gold medal in the vault to add to the silver medal she won last week in the all-around.

Source: New York Times August 01, 2021 18:15 UTC