Article 5MR8T Simone Biles helped me to gold, says USA’s Sunisa Lee after all-around win

Simone Biles helped me to gold, says USA’s Sunisa Lee after all-around win

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Tumaini Carayol at the Ariake Gymnastics Centre
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Sunisa Lee, the new women's Olympic all-around champion, said that Simone Biles and her older teammates gave her some key advice in a tense moment shortly before her final. They told me to just go out there and not worry about anything else because I was starting to put a lot of pressure on myself," she said.

Related: Sunisa Lee steps up in Biles's absence to win Olympic women's gymnastics all-around

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