Simone Biles upcoming stunt may be the most ambitious and impressive yet.
The 23-year-old gymnastics superstar, who has four Olympic gold medals and more World Championship victories under her belt, is set to try a skill so challenging and dangerous that no woman has ever attempted to pull it off in competition before.
She has her eyes set on a Yurchenko double pike which is complex vault that requires a gymnast to complete a round-off back-handspring entry into the vaulting table, then execute two full backward rotations with legs extended before, ideally, sticking the landing.
One of Biles' coaches, Laurent Landi, said during a recent segment on ‘60 Minutes’ that it's very, very challenging and that what's scary is that people can get hurt.
Biles has been practicing the move in the lead-up to the Tokyo Olympics.
