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The sun had not yet risen when she got out of bed and made her way to her neighbourhood’s community centre to join about 300 friends and relatives at a party to watch the individual all-around gymnastics final at the Tokyo Olympics.
Decades earlier, Yeev Thoj had watched gymnast Shannon Miller lead Team USA to a gold medal at the 1996 Games in Atlanta and a thought had crossed her mind. “Maybe someday if I have a kid, she will do gymnastics and go to the Olympics.”
And here Yeev was, at community centre in St Paul, Minnesota, watching as that kid she had dreamt of prepared to take on the best in the gymnastics world. Her daughter did more than take them on – she smashed it.
