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Just How Amazing is Simone Biles’ Yurchenko Double Pike

The first woman to land the impossible move just did it again in practice at the Tokyo Olympics.

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Written by Douglas Perry Last updated on July 22, 2021

Olympic gymnast, Simone Biles, at the 2021 US Classic, landed the Yurchenko Double Pike on the vault exercise. The first woman to ever perform the “impossible” move in competition just did a pretty good job of nailing the exact same move on the training podium at the Tokyo Olympics.

Olympic gymnast, Simone Biles, at the 2021 US Classic, landed the Yurchenko Double Pike on the vault exercise. The first woman to ever perform the “impossible” move in competition just did a pretty good job of nailing the exact same move on the training podium at the Tokyo Olympics.

There was some doubt about whether she would pull the move out for competition in Tokyo, or maybe it was just coyness, but Biles certainly looks ready to do the business and go for gold in the finals.

That’s all kinds of extraordinary and amazing and superlative. Let’s be clear, the Yurchenko Double Pike is a back handspring onto the vault, a flip in the air, two twists at the same time, and a second flip landing in the pike position.

The move is name after former Soviet gymnast, Natalia Yurchenko, and incorporartes speed, elevation off the platform, rotations, and power. Few men perform the move and rarely with the same degree of difficulty and power output that Biles has exhibited.

It is a dangerous move because, if not done right, you can break your neck. Biles, technically, is doing her own variatiion with an even greater degree of difficulty because she is doing two and half filps. If she nails the move at the Olympics, it could end up being a new move named after her.

Biles already has four skill moves to her name, this would be the fifth, which yet another layer of superlative on top of everything else she has achieved.

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About Douglas Perry

Douglas Perry is a journalist who turned his passion for technology into his profession more than 20 years ago. Since then, he followed, reviewed, and wrote about trends and products that define our mobile lifestyle today. He helped create several technology publications in Europe as well as the US in the past; these days, Douglas earns his living as a technology product and content strategist.

Three teenage athletes at home keep him busy during his free time, but have allowed him to get just enough training time in to remain competitive in road cycling and swimming. Less frequently than he would want to, Douglas manages to squeeze a Criterium ride in his schedule, and occasionally a casual bike race and a 5K with his kids.

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