Simone Biles’ historic vault needs a deep rewind

Simone Biles is the GOAT. She knows that and, I think, everyone else who watches sports knows that, too.

So what’s left for a great to do if she’s already been crowned? Well, there are always new and terrifying ways to contort your body on a vault. And, Biles wanted to do just that. She borrowed from a very small pool of men who had tried a Yurchenko double pike before her and decided she wanted to do it, too. With that plan, she’d be the first woman in her sport to try it in a gymnastics competition. There’s some history behind this vault, though, and behind Biles’ return

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