Simone Biles hasn't competed in more than 18 months, the four-time gold medalist showed in a video Friday that she's still just as talented as ever.
During podium training for the U.S. Classic, the 24-year-old was seen successfully landing a Yurchenko double pike — a dangerous and difficult vault move that no female gymnast has ever landed in competition.
The vault is named after the 1980s Russian world champion Natalia Yurchenko and consists of a roundoff, then a back handspring, before ending with a piked double backflip. «It's very, very challenging and what's scary is people can get hurt,» Biles' coach Laurent Landi told in February. «You do a short landing, you can hurt your ankles...it's a very dangerous vault.» The historic move,.
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