This has been an eventful year forSunisa Lee.
As of this writing, she had advanced to the semifinals (viaUSA Today).
Yet her medals and fame weren’t enough to protect Lee from being the target of a hate crime.

Then as they drove off, one of the assailants sprayed her arm with pepper spray.
I just let it happen," she said.
A recent poll conducted by NPR, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and the Harvard T.H.

The COVID-19 pandemic is thought to have helped fuel the spike, due to its origins in China.