Suni Lee reacts to her uneven bars routine from the 2020 and 2024 Olympics being compared

Suni Lee is one of the best gymnasts currently competing and is particularly well known for her skills on the uneven bars and balance beam. Recently, the American reacted to the differences between her Tokyo Olympics bar routine and her 2024 Olympics bar routine, pinpointing what she'd improved the most.

In 2021, Lee was back to competing after nearly a year-long hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic. However, the break only improved her skills, and she claimed uneven bar titles at the Winter Cup, the American Classic, as well as the U.S Championships. The gymnast kept that momentum going at the Tokyo Games, claiming a bronze on the bars and a gold in the all-around.

For Lee, 2024 got off to a slower start. While she competed at the Winter Cup, she was unable to defend her title due to issues with her kidney illness. However, she slowly found her winning way back and won her first uneven bars title of the season at the U.S Olympic Trials. At the Paris Olympics, Lee successfully defended her bronze on the apparatus.

Now, reacting to a video comparing her bar routines at the two Games, Suni Lee wrote on Instagram,

“Hahaha omg wait. I haven't watched my 2020 bar routine since the Olympics, my trauma. Also my bars now is so much cleaner than before, why didn't anyone tell me."

Via Suni Lee's Instagram

Suni Lee’s possible eponymous skill on the uneven bars

Suni Lee at the Paris Olympics- Source: Getty

Suni Lee has always been a force on the bars, performing difficult maneuvers with seeming ease. She is one of the very few gymnasts in the world to compete in the Nabieva, a mind-bogglingly difficult move where the gymnast swings around the bottom of the high bar, flies over the top, and catches the same bar. All of this is done in a layout, with a straight body position and legs together. Lee further enhances the difficulty of this move by connecting it to the bhardwaj.

With her prowess on the apparatus, Lee debuted a new skill in March 2024, one that could be named after her. The gymnast shared a video of herself competing in a full-twisting Jaeger, a move consisting of a backward swing in a reverse grip, with a front somersault in a layout position with an added full twist.

No one else has ever competed the full-twisting Jaeger in a competition before, meaning that the skills would be renamed ‘the Lee’ if the Olympic champion were to successfully land it in an international competition.