Last year, Simone Biles made history as she became the first woman to perform the Yurchenko double pike at a world competition -- a skill few men even attempt, let alone land. But among the gymnasts ...

The Yurchenko double pike, the most difficult vault in women's gymnastics, was named after Biles when she first landed it in international... NPR is in Paris for the 2024 Summer Olympics. For more of ...

The level of difficulty continues to rise in gymnastics, but the triple-twisting Yurchenko is still the red line—even for elite gymnasts like Simone Biles and Rebeca Andrade. Simone Biles has pushed ...

It is, by far, the best she’s ever done the vault, surpassing even the one she did at the 2023 U.S. championships, where she got a 9.8 in execution. Biles beamed and her teammates cheered when she ...

The most decorated gymnast ever sprints down the vault runway. She tumbles gracefully onto the springboard, flings herself backward onto the vault table and pops off the surface. Soaring through the ...

NAPERVILLE, Illinois, July 10 (Reuters) - Four-times Olympic gold medallist Simone Biles is usually the favourite for any vault competition she enters but Brazilian Rebeca Andrade looks to be pulling ...

PARIS — Simone Biles is one of one, much like the challenging vault that only she alone attempts. It was, as expected, Biles’s Yurchenko double pike that secured her Olympic gold medal here in the ...

Simone Biles may compete again. Or she may not. Either way, the 11-time Olympic medalist will not be performing her most iconic vault — one of five elements bearing her name in the International ...

Simone Biles said goodbye to one of her signature vault moves in the most extra — and iconic — way. The gymnast, 27, held a funeral for her vault and the Yurchenko Double Pike via Instagram on Monday, ...

NORTHBOROUGH — Vasko Vetzev didn’t necessarily want Bella Misiura, Masconomet’s star gymnast to do her Yurchenko full vault at the MIAA North gymnastics sectional Saturday afternoon. “My coach wanted ...

Editor’s note:Simone Biles has wonOlympic gold in the team final,all-around final andvault final at the 2024 Paris Olympics. PARIS — If this is what Simone Biles does in practice, just imagine when it ...