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Being with us. if you were looking at "the new york times," when simone biles stepped back, suni lee stepped up. there's a lot riding on the shoulders of your daughter today. i wonder if you can react to the news of simone biles pulling out of these all around competitions. john? >> wow. we are very surprised. we don't know what to say. i mean, simone biles out. we don't know how that's going to turn out. jade carey stepping in. hope jade carey do just as well. >> wow. well, i hope simone is okay. i hope she's doing okay and i hope she gets the help that she

Yeah. i think she worries, but i think she can do okay. >> you mentioned when you got hurt. you actually suffered an accident in 2019 that left you paralyzed. that's what you're referring to. i know this has made the path for suni to olympics tough. tell me a little bit about her path towards really this big moment tomorrow when she'll be competing in the individual all around. >> yeah. in the past when -- she's just been competing under pressure i think all the way -- ever since i got injured in 2019 up to now up to the point where she made the olympics and even going to the olympics and then...

With simone biles out, another american gymnast is facing the biggest spotlight of her career, and she is no stranger to obstacles. here is kate snow. >> reporter: sunisa lee, suni, knows a lot about how to handle life's twists and turns. >> i mean, it's just so fun, flying from one bar to the other bar. >> reporter: do you feel like you're flying? >> yeah, you're literally flying in between. >> reporter: she grew up in st. paul, minnesota, surrounded by siblings and a large extended family. her parents moved here from laos. she is first the hmong american to compete on team usa with a huge co...

World especially familiar to another olympic legend, michael phelps, who has been very public about his own mental health struggles. he sat down with me earlier this evening. michael, what was your first reaction when you heard about simone? >> i was taken aback, number one, because i had never really heard her kind of open up about some of the struggles, right. for me, i could tell she was going through something difficult. i don't know what that is. but i also know at this level, kit be overwhelming. everything is overwhelming when you're at the olympics. i know what that feels like. >> but ...