Lindsey Stirling Shares Story Behind Music for Suni Lee's Paris Olympics Floor Exercise

The violinist wrote "Eye of the Untold Her" about "having the courage to push through self-doubt and obstacles," Stirling said

All eyes were on Olympic gymnast Sunisa “Suni” Lee and the rest of the “Golden Girls” during the gymnastics women's team final at the 2024 Paris Olympics – including pop violinist Lindsey Stirling.

Stirling, 37, shared a video of herself on TikTok cheering on Lee, 21, performing her floor exercise to her song "Eye of the Untold Her," a single from her latest album Duality.

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Lee previously used another song by Stirling during her floor exercise at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021. 

Lee’s floor routine performance on July 29 earned her a score of 13.533 and helped Team USA secure gold in the women’s gymnastics team final.

“I wrote this song about perseverance," Stirling explained on TikTok. “About having the courage to push through self-doubt and obstacles.”

Stirling connected the track to Lee’s struggles over the last year when she was “diagnosed with 2 kidney diseases.”

“She gained 40 lbs in one month and she got continuously weaker,” Stirling wrote. “Her Dr. said she’d probably never do gymnastics again.”

In April 2023, the Hmong-American gymnast announced on X (formerly known as Twitter) and Instagram that she would be ending her college gymnastic career at Auburn University due to a "non-gymnastics related issue involving my kidneys."

Lee underwent treatment for her kidney issues for a year. During the Team USA Media Summit in April, Lee said she was in remission and looking to make a comeback at the Paris Olympics, per the Associated Press.

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Speaking more about her kidney disease, Lee told TODAY, “There were so many times when I thought about quitting and just giving up because I was so sick. But once I had those people around me who lifted me up and supported me and just made sure that I was good, I knew that this is something I wanted.”

She leaned on her teammates, including Simone Biles, for support through the competitions which led to her eventually earning her spot on Team USA once again.

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“We have it under control now,” she told the Associated Press in April. “We know what to do and the right medication to take.”

“Initially I decided I wanted to come back because I really was only getting better and I love gymnastics,” Lee continued. “I wanted to prove to myself that I could be better than I was at the last Olympics.”

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