U.S. gymnast Sunisa Lee said that she wanted to eat pho as a celebration for her three medals at the Paris Olympics. 

“I want some pho. I’ve been craving pho or some type of soup anywhere I look here, I just can’t find it. But yeah, that’s so Asian of me,” she said in an interview after her impressive performances at the Games.

Pho is a signature Vietnamese dish of fresh rice noodles with broth and meat.

The 21-year-old Hmong American gymnast won one gold medal and two bronze medals at this year’s Games.

After her sharing with reporters, netizens quickly found a pho restaurant in Paris and introduced it to her.

A fan posted on social media, “There is some tasty pho in Paris. Please bring it to her!”

Some left comments reading, “Paris has some of the tastiest pho in the world. Come to the Vietnamese community to savor it.”

Lee was born in Minnesota, the U.S., and is of Hmong descent. Her mother immigrated to the U.S. from Laos.

Gymnastics piqued her interest when she was six after she watched the performances by American gymnasts Nastia Liukin and Shawn Johnson on YouTube.

Her stepfather built a balance beam for her from a mattress. When Lee started doing backflips outdoors, her parents thought that she needed a safer venue to hone her skills.

As such, they registered her for gymnastics classes at a gymnastics center in Minnesota, where she started training under coach Punnarith Koy.

At the age of seven, Lee won the all-around award at a state competition, and in the following years, she attended several gymnastics competitions in the U.S..

She bagged an all-around gold medal and two uneven bars bronze medals at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo.

At the Paris Olympics 2024, she won a team gold medal, a bronze in the all-around, and another bronze on the asymmetric bars.

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