#Steeven.™ Posted February 15, 2021 Posted February 15, 2021 The year of postponement of the Tokyo Olympic Games is not being taken as an 'extension' by the Olympic champion of artistic gymnastics, the American Simone Biles, who was scheduled to have retired last summer after participating in her second Games. She had a hard time getting used to the idea that she had to delay her plans for one more year, but once assumed, she turned her body and soul into trying to give the best image of herself in what will probably be the last competition of she. The report dedicated to her by the CBS program '60 minutes' has revealed the new gymnastic element that the five-time world champion has been preparing. This time it is in the jump of the colt, and like two others that already bear his name, on the ground - double back somersault with triple turn - and on the balance beam - double-double start -, it goes beyond the hitherto known in female artistic gymnastics. In the recording of a training session, the American woman is seen performing the jump known as 'Yurchenko' (circled on the impulse trampoline) followed by a double back somersault according to her technical description, or 'Yang Wei', the name of the Chinese gymnast Olympic champion at the 2000 Sydney Games who was the first to do so. Despite the two decades that have passed, it remains one of the most difficult in the male code of punctuation. There are two main complexities: the height that the gymnasts have to reach to be able to turn twice with the body at a 90 degree angle, and the precision and control of these turns so as not to fall backwards on landing due to the force of inertia. they carry. "It is very, very complicated. The biggest fear is that you can injure your ankles ... It is very dangerous," Biles's coach, Frenchman Laurent Landi, catalogs it in the report. "It is very, very complicated. The biggest fear is that you can injure your ankles ... It is very dangerous" Laurent Landi - Simone Biles' Coach But according to the images, his gymnast seems to have it already mastered. The question is whether she will use it in official competition, or whether she will not be worth it. Biles presented in society the previous news of her in the qualifying country championships for the 2019 World Cups. Then she produced a great sensation, and when she arrived at the World Cups all her eyes were on her. But she was met with suspicion by the International Federation's women's gymnastics technical committee, which considered the departure from the balance beam as "too risky." To dissuade the gymnasts from following Biles' example, she devalued the actual value of the item, so she does not take into account the risk of failure when the bonus is ridiculous. Something similar can happen with the 'Yurchenko'-double pike if the FIG considers it excessively dangerous for female gymnasts. In that case, Biles could limit himself to exhibiting it in the American Olympic trials and not include it among her jumps at the Tokyo Games, where the important thing in her case is victory. In any case, the American continues to push women's gymnastics along paths that, until now, only men have traveled.
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