dominant Simone Biles is in her sport — until we remember that she's nailing moves other gymnasts aren't even attempting. In 2019, she became the first woman to land a, for instance. That same year, she debuted a double-twisting double backflip beam dismount. As if we needed more proof of how unreal these feats were,.
Biles was expected to attempt the vault at the Tokyo Olympics after practicing the move during on-site training before the 2020 Games began. But she didn't have a chance to perform the skill in competition before She got her chance to land the Yurchenko double pike in 2023 during the World Championships. Biles busted out the skill during the qualifying round and landed it successful, the first woman athlete to ever do so. The move was then named after her: the Biles II on Vault., tells to PS that from a physical perspective, many things make the skill difficult."First of all, you need the speed of the run and the height to get those two and a half rotations," Chan said.
Both Biles and US women's national team coordinator Tom Forster have argued that the D-score given was too low. Biles expressed the same sentimentsafter the FIG Women's Technical Committee said they took into consideration the risk associated with the dismount.
Biles will continue to challenge what is possible in her sport, and everyone's looking forward to see what's next for the incredible athlete. She already has high-scoring routines — she fell on bars and put her hands down on floor during the GK US Classic andwon the all-around by over a full point — so she doesn't realistically need to up her game. However, that's exactly what she'll do because, as she told The New York Times in 2021,"I can.
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