TOKYO — The thing Sunisa Lee is most looking forward to now that she is the Olympic all-around gymnastics champion is not her instant fame as one of Team U.S.A.’s biggest stars. It’s packing up her belongings less than a week after she arrives home in Minnesota from the Tokyo Games so she can head to college. She will most likely be the only incoming student with her own day named after her: Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota declared Friday “Sunisa Lee Day.”“I do want to go to college and have fun and kind of get away from this elite atmosphere because it’s so crazy,” she said on Friday in a video call with reporters. “And I know that college is going to be way better.”

Source: New York Times July 30, 2021 14:58 UTC