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Simone Biles's Yurchenko Double Pike

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.