by Dollita Okine, Face2FaceAfrica.com
Star Gymnast Simone Biles completed a Yurchenko double pike, the most difficult vault in women’s gymnastics, at the world championships on Sunday, becoming the first woman to perform the move in a major international competition successfully and cementing her place in gymnastics history.
Since the 26-year-old already has four skills named after her, two on floor exercise and one each on balancing beam and vault, the Yurchenko double pike, a vault with an extra flip that makes it so difficult and deadly, will now be known as the Biles II.
“People, I hope, realize that maybe that’s one of the last times you’re going to see a vault like that in your life from a women’s gymnast. I think it’s time to appreciate that,” Biles’s coach Laurent Landi stated, according to The Washington Post.