#gymnastics #sports #olympics China’s Yang Wei was the first male gymnast to perform the Yurchenko Double Pike vault in ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

On a night filled with Senior Day emotion, Michigan women's gymnastics delivered its season-high vault despite its loss to No. 1 Oklahoma.

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...