'Happy tears': Lee's gold sparks joy at home in Minnesota

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By Gomez in Sports
Updated 3 years ago

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — There were cheers and screams and "happy tears" for one of their own, and unending delight for what many saw as an "Only in America" story. Sunisa Lee captured the women's all-around gold medalat the Tokyo Olympics on Thursday, a triumph that wowed all of Minnesota but carried special resonance in the state's close-knit Hmong-American community, one of the largest in the United States.

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