02/04/2020 - 16:00
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Simone Biles is the gymnast who defies the limits: for her there seems to be no impossible. Even less if it is inside a gym and with a jump bench in front. And he will seek to surprise the world again at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics.
This was demonstrated in his social networks, where he uploaded a short video - barely 4 seconds - in which he is seen practicing an exercise never before done by a woman in official competitions. This is the Yurchenko double pike vault . It only remains to know if you can successfully complete the trick's departure.
2020 👀👀👀? pic.twitter.com/3QDjSOPYbH
- Simone Biles (@Simone_Biles) February 3, 2020Now what is a Yurchenko? This is how all the jumps in the race make a flic-flac round and enter the colt on their backs and the name is due to the Soviet gymnast Natalia Yurchenko, who in 1982 made that jump in a competition in Moscow. But Biles, during his rehearsal, added the difficulty of double carping back.
Like everything that Biles does, the impact was quickly activated on social networks, where criticisms of the International Gymnastics Federation (FIG) abounded, which during the Stuttgart World Cup punished the American's ability by not scoring a 10 test in beam not to "tempt" gymnasts to risk performing an exercise for which they are not prepared, putting the score before their physical safety.
On that occasion, the FIG assigned a double "H" difficulty to that double backward with two turns that forces the gymnast to make a rotation in the air of 720 degrees and that Biles executed successfully during the World Cup qualification.
In Germany, precisely, the American finished with five golds and became the gymnast - man or woman - with more world medals in history, exceeding 23 of the Belarusian Vitali Scherbo.
This year in Japan, Biles will seek to dazzle again in what may be his last Olympic Games, although the FIG returns to stand between her and her wonderful tricks.