Simone Biles has dazzled gymnastics fans for years with her Yurchenko double pike on the vault, earning career-high scores on her way to numerous gold medals.
On Tuesday, Biles held a mock funeral for the relocation, posting two photos to Instagram that showed her dressed in white and standing at a vaulted table with flowers around her.
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Simone Biles of the United States holds her gold medal during the national anthem during the vault medal ceremony on the first day of artistic gymnastics finals at the Paris 2024 Olympic Summer Games at the Bercy Arena in Paris on August 3, 2024. (Kyle Terada – USA Today Sports)
“Best wishes to the Yurchenko double pike,” she wrote in the caption.
“No longer with us, but literally never forgotten,” USA Gymnastics wrote in the comments section.
The Yurchenko double pike was a mainstay of her repertoire, and she nailed it at the Paris Olympics despite a calf injury. She won three Olympic gold medals and one silver, three years after her struggles with the twisties plagued her in Tokyo.
Biles first performed the move in May 2021. No woman had ever successfully performed the move before her. By October 2023, the move was renamed Biles II.
Simone Biles married Chicago Bears safety Jonathan Owens in April 2023. (Joseph Weiser/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)
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Biles said during an episode of the Facebook series. “Simone versus herself” The judges are deducting points from her because her abilities are so much greater than her competitors.
“If anybody else did that, I'm pretty sure they'd give it the right rating, 99.9 percent of the time,” Biles said, recounting the new moves she unveiled on floor exercise and balance beam at the 2019 World Championships.
“But I'm already so far ahead of everyone else that they're trying to pull me back. … Sometimes I feel like it's not fair that I always win.”
American athlete Simone Biles celebrates after winning the gold medal after the women's team final at the Paris 2024 Olympic Summer Games at the Bercy Arena. (Jack Gruber – USA Today Sports)
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For now, Biles will have her eye on the gold medal tour and begin preparing for her next move.
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