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Simone Biles’s gold-medal-winning Yurchenko double pike, frame by frame.

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Simone Biles won the gold medal in the vault with her signature Yurchenko double pike and then a vault called a Cheng. The Yurchenko double pike is the hardest vault in women’s gymnastics: She does a roundoff onto the springboard, a back handspring onto the vaulting table, then catapults herself into a double back flip with her legs straight in front of her.

Biles getting into the roundoff on the springboard.
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Biles upside down and backward in midair as she prepares to do a back handspring off the vaulting table.
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Biles upside down with her hands on the vaulting table.
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