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 ...

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 ...

Back in January, Jordan Chiles grew emotional after scoring a perfect 10 for her double-twisting Yurchenko with a flawless landing. “It took me four years to finally get a 10 on vault!” she said, a ...

Rebeca Andrade submitted the Triple Twisting Yurchenko vault, which has a 6.0 start value and consists of a round-off onto the springboard, a back handspring onto the table, and a salto backward ...

Rest in peace to Simone Biles’ signature vault routine. This week, the Olympic gold medalist bid farewell to the “world’s most difficult vault” in a satirical Instagram photoshoot. To announce that ...

#gymnastics #vault #SimoneBiles #olympics In May of 2021, Simone Biles stunned the world when she debuted a vault once ...

Simone Biles said goodbye to one of her signature vault moves in the most extra — and iconic — way. The gymnast, 27, held a funeral for her vault and the Yurchenko Double Pike via Instagram on Monday, ...

PARIS — Minutes after American gymnastics star Simone Biles won the seventh Olympic gold of her career on Saturday in a vault final that left little doubt that even at 27 she remains in a class by ...

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 ...