John Lee, Sunisa Lee’s father: “I can’t find the words that express it, how happy we are, how important that was to me and my family and to the whole Hmong community throughout the world.
“We never expected gold, but she came through. She did it.”
“We got a large crowd. And, as she was competing, everybody was so nervous. And when we got to that last event, it was neck-to-neck going to that last event, and when she pulled it off, in my mind, just, ‘Oh my God, is this really, is this real?’”
“I never cry. I try not to in front of people. I almost did this time. Well, actually, deep inside I did. I just didn’t want to show it to the world. But it was really emotional. My daughter cried, my wife cried. A lot of people cried tears, happy tears.”
“But I think this, Sunisa being in the Olympics and winning the gold, I think people will maybe understand who the Hmongs are.”
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