Olympian Maia Shibutani ‘Doing Properly’ After Previous Well being Points

Workforce USA Olympian Maia Shibutani resides her life to the fullest, four-and-a-half years after she found a tumor she had eliminated was malignant.

“I am wholesome and doing properly,” the 29-year-old instructed PEOPLE solely on the Gold Gala on Saturday, Could 11. “Everybody’s love and concern may be very a lot appreciated however I am completely satisfied to share that I am wholesome.”

Again in Could 2019, Maia — who received the ice dance and crew bronze medal together with her brother Alex, 33 — was revealed {that a} tumor she had eliminated was cancerous.

“I bought my pathology report again — the tumor that was efficiently eliminated on Saturday was sadly malignant (most cancers). (SDH)-deficient renal cell carcinoma,” the Olympian wrote on Instagram. She beforehand stated that medical doctors put the chances of the mass being malignant at 60/40.

“This wasn’t the information I hoped for, however I’m past grateful that it was detected early and that my surgical procedure went properly,” she continued, sharing on the time that “no additional remedy is required presently.”

After the process, Maia detailed that her restoration was “very painful” and “extraordinarily difficult.”

However as we speak, Maia tells PEOPLE she’s “doing nice” and that she and Alex — affectionately dubbed the “Shib Sibs” — have a really busy summer season forward, together with a visit to Paris for the 2024 Olympics,

“We’ll be in Paris this summer season for the Olympics,” Alex stated. “I will be a photographer there on the bottom and Maia will likely be doing quite a lot of completely different media roles.”

“It is our first summer season Olympics!” Maia chimed in excitedly.

“Paris is an unbelievable metropolis and we’re simply trying to cheering on Workforce USA athletes and all the opposite athletes on that stage,” Alex added.

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Talking of the Olympic stage, the Shibutanis joined fellow Winter Olympians Kristi Yamaguchi, Chloe Kim and Apolo Anton Ohno, and Paralympian Scout Bassett on the Gold Gala to honor three members of Workforce USA who received crew gold on the 2022 Beijing Olympics: Nathan Chen, Vincent Zhou and Madison Chock.

“It was an exquisite evening of celebrating tradition, achievement, neighborhood, and allyship,” the brother and sister duo wrote on Instagram after the Gold Gala, which acknowledged Asian/Pacific Islander/Native Hawaiian excellence in leisure, sports activities, enterprise and extra.

The Shibutanis will likely be highlighting much more Asian excellence of their second ebook, due out subsequent Spring.

“It is known as Unimaginable: Asian Individuals and Pacific Islanders Who Modified the World,” Maia shared. “It will spotlight 38 earlier and up to date trailblazers.”