Simone Biles competing in the vault during the finals of the gymnastics team competition at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021.
Five years later, at the U.S. Classic in 2021, she introduced the second two-flip vault: the Yurchenko double pike.
The Yurchenko double pike starts with a roundoff onto the springboard and a back handspring onto the vaulting table.
That’s the “double pike” part.
The move requires a preposterous amount of power coming off the vaulting table and allows hardly any margin for error.
Persons:
Simone Biles, Simone Biles’s, Elena Produnova, “ I’m, ” Biles, Natalia Yurchenko, Biles
Organizations:
Tokyo, Yorker, New Yorker, U.S, Tokyo Olympics
Locations:
Russia, Soviet