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Simone Biles Made History With Her Latest Daring Gymnastics Move
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essence.comGreatest of All Time.” The first woman in history to land a Yurchenko double pike in competition.Our jaws are on the floor. @Simone_Biles is still in the air. #USClassic pic.twitter.com/CmJYRidtfoBefore Biles, only men had done the Yurchenko double pike.
The complex move consists of the following: a run into a roundoff off of the springboard, two piked in-air backflips and a landing. “I was just thinking, ‘Do it like training.
Don’t try to like overdo anything,'” she said after her daring feat. “…I have a tendency as soon as I raise my hand to kind of overpower things, and I did a little bit, but at least I was on my feet.
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