Skills Simone Biles Is Practicing Before the Tokyo Olympics
The Best and Most Superhuman Skills Simone Biles Debuted in 2020 Alone — There Are Many
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— Simone Biles (@Simone_Biles) February 3, 2020
Before COVID-19 put a halt to Olympic training, Biles shared this video of herself doing a Yurchenko double pike. A Yurchenko entry on vault means a gymnast executes a roundoff onto the springboard and a back handspring onto the table before adding a flip off of the vault. The fact that she does a double pike (a backflip with straight legs in a piked position) out of this is incredible, and something you never see in women's gymnastics. According to sports journalist Blythe Lawrence, no woman has ever attempted the skill in competition.