The level of difficulty continues to rise in gymnastics, but the triple-twisting Yurchenko is still the red line—even for elite gymnasts like Simone Biles and Rebeca Andrade. Simone Biles has pushed ...
ABOVE VIDEO: Simone Biles locked up her seventh career Olympic gold medal with the help of her eponymous Yurchenko double pike during the event final at the 2024 Paris Olympics. Can't view the above ...
NPR is in Paris for the 2024 Summer Olympics. For more of our coverage from the games head to our latest updates. PARIS — In 2021, when the gymnast Simone Biles first began to publicly perform the ...
Simone Biles may compete again. Or she may not. Either way, the 11-time Olympic medalist will not be performing her most iconic vault — one of five elements bearing her name in the International ...
Known as the "world's most difficult vault," the skill was formerly called the Yurchenko double pike Anna Lazarus Caplan is a writer-reporter for PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2022. Her ...
Simone Biles may compete again. Or she may not. Either way, the 11-time Olympic medalist will not be performing her most iconic vault — one of five elements bearing her name in the International ...