American gymnast Simon Biles continues to write memorable pages of artistic gymnastics. At the world championships in Antwerp she won the crown of "undisputed queen" by performing the Yurchenko double pike on vault, an exercise previously performed only by men , and which now takes the name of the 26-year-old gymnast, four-time Olympic champion. The US star is, so far, the only woman capable of achieving it.
Biles returns to the sports scene after withdrawing from the Tokyo Games due to a psychological block . But after the arrest she returned with new energy and desire to win. And he did it, lighting up the qualifications of the world championship tournament in the city where he won his first world medals. The legendary jump achieved an incredible score of 15.266, for a total of 58.865 points at the end of the four apparatus.
«He did it! That's all I can say", commented his coach, still in disbelief. “People, I hope, realize that this may be the only time in their lives that they have seen a jump like this performed by a female gymnast,” she added.
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