US gymnastics star craves ‘phở’ after completing her competition at the Paris Olympics

Suni Lee has won three medals in Paris and she wants to enjoy phở. — AFP/VNA Photo

PARIS — After completing the competitions at the 2024 Paris Olympics, Suni Lee of the US gymnastics team suddenly revealed that she was craving to enjoy phở (Vietnamese noodle soup).

Lee is one of the stars of the US gymnastics team. She has brought home three medals (one team gold and two individual bronzes) from the Paris Olympics, bringing her total number of medals to six. She also won three medals (one gold, one silver and one bronze) at the Tokyo 2021 Olympic Games.

Lee officially ended her run in Paris after Monday’s balance beam final and was asked post-performance what she plans on eating to celebrate.

“I want, like, some phở,” Lee says. “I’ve been craving phở or some type of soup anywhere I look here, but I just, I can’t find it, but yeah. That’s so Asian of me.”

After hearing Lee’s story, American fans started posting on X (formerly Twitter) to find places that sell phở and send it to her.

The 21-year-old Mông-American gymnast then received a list of more than 50 phở restaurants in Paris.

“There’s some solid phở in Paris,” wrote one X user. “Someone get it to her stat!”

“Paris has some of the best phở in the world… check-in with the large Vietnamese community there,” posted another. “France is home to the oldest Vietnamese community outside of Việt Nam. Someone in Paris help Lee find good phở!” wrote one more.

At the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, Lee also shared that she craved pizza right after helping the US gymnastics team win the all-around gold medal. Returning to the US, Suni Lee also posted a photo of herself wearing an Olympic shirt and lying next to a giant slice of pizza.

Lee is the sixth woman of the US to win the Olympic all-around title, the first Mông-American Olympian and the first Asian American woman to win an Olympic all-around gold medal. VNS