Before the 2024 Paris Olympics officially began, Simone Biles sent a message to the competition, posting a flawless vault from a practice session that would leave her competitors shaking in their boots, or leotards.
Simone Biles sticks signature move and lets everyone see
That’s Biles, already a 4-time Olympic gold medalist, casually landing the Yurchenko Double Pike, a vault move so difficult that it has never been done at the Olympic Games.
Biles didn’t just land it. She stuck it. And she certainly did not need to post the video to her Instagram story for her fellow gymnasts to know that she is the one to beat on the vault. But she did it anyway.
She accompanied the video with a single emoji: a bullseye. Biles has her eyes on gold, and she’s not referring to archery.
What is the Biles II?
The back handspring onto the springboard followed by two backflips in a straight-leg pike has a simpler name to the public: the Biles II. It one of several moves she has named after her, and the one she hopes will help her make history in Paris.
