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 won the gold medal in the vault with her signature Yurchenko double pike and then a vault called a Cheng. The Yurchenko double pike is the hardest vault in women’s gymnastics: She does a ...