Simone Biles returns and is queen at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Antwerp. The American champion, after retiring from the competitions of the Tokyo Games for a psychological block has illuminated the qualifications of the world championship tournament in the city where she won her first world medals: and she did it with a legendary jump, performing the Yurchenko double carpio on vault, an exercise so far performed only by men, and which now takes the name of the 26-year-old gymnast, Four-time Olympic champion, she being the only woman capable of achieving it.
The jump obtained the incredible score of 15.266, for a total of 58.865 points at the end of the four tools. "He did it! That's all I can say," exulted his coach, French Laurent Landi. "People, I hope, realize that this may be the only time in their lives that they have seen a jump like this performed by a female gymnast," she added.
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