PARIS — Simone Biles is one of one, much like the challenging vault that only she alone attempts.
It was, as expected, Biles’s Yurchenko double pike that secured her Olympic gold medal here in the vault final of the Paris Games. She took only a small hop back on her landing and received a one-tenth deduction for landing out of bounds, but otherwise it looked and felt as good as gold in the moment.
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Biles received a score of 15.700 for the YDP and a 14.900 on her second vault, a Cheng, for an average of 15.300 to put her atop the leaderboard and essentially untouchable.
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