Suni Lee wins sixth Olympic gymnastics medal with bronze in bars - ESPN

PARIS — Kaylia Nemour of Algeria delivered the country's first gold medal in gymnastics, while American Sunisa Lee picked up her third medal in Paris with a bronze in the uneven bars final Sunday

Nemour put together a thrilling routine to edge China's Qiu Qiyuan.

For Lee, it was the sixth medal of her Olympic career. She also won the bronze in uneven bars in Tokyo three years ago.

«The pressure was on,» said Lee, who was the last to compete Sunday. «It's so much more meaningful because last Olympics I told myself I was coming back to redeem myself on bars and that's what I did this time. I wanted to just put a good, clean routine together. If I just did the routine I did the past couple of days, then I knew I would medal. I wanted to go up there, prove to myself that I could do it.»

Nemour is French and still trains in France but switched to compete for Algeria following a dispute with the French gymnastics federation and Nemour's club of Avoine Beaumont, which has led the gymnast to embrace her father's Algerian nationality.

Nemour, 17, swooped from one bar to the other with a series of releases and intricate hand maneuvers that were both athletically and technically demanding. Her 15.700 barely was enough to beat Qiu, who hugged her coaches after her dismount and listened to the crowd erupt when her 15.5 was posted.

While Nemour competes under a different flag — she draped the Algerian banner behind her after clinching her victory — she was very much on home soil. A raucous ovation followed after she won the first-ever gymnastics medal for Algeria.

Lee has spent much of the past 15 months dealing with multiple kidney diseases that have limited her training. She didn't really get serious about Paris until December. And