OP native Leanne Wong will go to Paris Olympics as gymnastics alternate

It isn’t the spot gymnast Leanne Wong of Overland Park wanted on the U.S. Women’s Olympic Team. At lat week’s U.S. Olympic team trials in Minneapolis, Wong wasn’t able to lock down one of fourth berths on the team, in addition to automatic qualifier Simone Biles, but she is one of the two alternates named to travel to the Paris Summer Olympics, so she knows she’ll be standing by.

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