Simone Biles continues to push the envelope for challenging skills and her vault performance in the women's gymnastics all-around ... drilled a Yurchenko double pike, which has become known ...

They're named after gymnast Natalia Vladimirovna Yurchenko. Because Biles became the first woman to complete the double pike move in a major international competition, it has since been named ...

Simone Biles came to the 2024 Paris Games looking to do what no other women's gymnast had done before: She wanted to land a Yurchenko double pike vault at the Olympics. The Team USA star did just ...

Here is a list of all the moves named after the legendary gymnast. The New York Times in 2021 stated that the Yurchenko double pike is "so perilous and challenging that no other woman has ...

Gymnasts hold their legs together during this move and keep their backs straight and keep their eyes looking forward, per Synergy Gymnastics. Rotating from pike position is slower than doing so ...

“The double pike, it’s never been normal, and it never will be,” said Joscelyn Roberson, an alternate for the U.S. Olympic team who trains alongside Biles. Biles stunned the gymnastics ...

During practice, Biles stuck a complex vault, the Yurchenko double pike. The move is considered the most difficult vault in women's gymnastics, and it was renamed the Biles II in 2023, after she ...

Another successful Yurchenko double pike. “It just makes your mouth drop open every time,” said UCLA gymnastics coach Janelle McDonald, who sat in the front row next to the vault landing area ...

The Yurchenko double pike is so difficult because there is no bailout. If it's done wrong, or a gymnast is off in the air, he or she is likely to land on their neck or head. In a measure of the ...

They're named after gymnast Natalia Vladimirovna Yurchenko. In a Yurchenko double pike, a gymnast will round-off onto the springboard, then do a back handspring onto the vault, before launching ...

Simone Biles stunned the gymnastics community with her remarkable Yurchenko Double Pike in 2021 at the U.S. Classic. This skill is one of the most difficult to attempt in the vault. However ...