Simone Biles STUNS fans with outrageous vault in Olympics practice

It's adjacent to opportunity that American gymnastics fable Simone Biles is group up for a expansive return to nan Olympic stage.

After sitting retired for astir of nan Tokyo Olympics pursuing her conflict pinch 'The Twisties', Biles has returned to nan Summer Games successful Paris and is fresh to compete.

She's sent nan net into a frenzy early connected Thursday greeting - landing a move known arsenic nan Yurchenko double pike.

The move involves a roundoff into nan springboard and a backmost handspring into nan vault table.

Not only did Biles cleanly propulsion this off, but she past flipped doubly successful mid-air and past stuck nan landing.

It's a move that's go an iconic portion of Biles' repertoire - and 1 nary different female has completed. It's truthful associated pinch Biles that nan regular has been named aft her and is known arsenic nan 'Biles II' successful nan women's gymnastics world.

But this was besides 1 of nan routines that led to her developing 'the twisties' - a arena wherever gymnasts abruptly suffer nan expertise to support assemblage power successful nan aerial - backmost successful nan 2021 Olympics successful Tokyo.

In 2020 trials, Biles fell disconnected nan beam, flew retired of bounds doubly successful her level routine, and didn't instrumentality her landing successful nan vault.

Biles is known for having peculiarly difficult routines - pinch nan Biles II fixed nan grant arsenic nan astir difficult vault successful women's creator gymnastics erstwhile it was fixed a impermanent trouble of 6.6 earlier nan Tokyo Olympics. 

She completed nan move astatine nan 2023 World Championships, wherever it was assigned a trouble of 6.4, pinch a 0.5 constituent neutral simplification for having a coach connected nan mat to spot her for safety. 

But it's clear to spot that Biles looks much assured than earlier and is fresh to return connected Paris pinch teammates Suni Lee, Jordan Chiles, Jade Carey, and Hezly Rivera.