World Gymnastic

Biles creates another world gymnastics first

The Yurchenko double pike is the most difficult jump in the women's scoring code and was rated at 6.4 points by the technical committee in anticipation of it being performed.

It was named after Natalia Yurchenko as she pioneered the approach to the vault not the what Biles performed after pressing off it.

The 26-year-old athlete scored 15.266 with a 58.865 total in the all-around, securing the vault to be named Biles II after a different original jump was named after her in 2018.