It’s the first major leap in vault innovation for women’s artistic gymnastics in two decades.
MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA – JUNE 30: Simone Biles reacts prior to the start of Day Four of the 2024 U.S. Olympic Team Gymnastics Trials at Target Center on June 30, 2024 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The most decorated gymnast ever sprints down the vault runway. She tumbles gracefully onto the springboard, flings herself backward onto the vault table and pops off the surface. Soaring through the air, she folds her body in half and grabs the back of her legs for two head-over-heels flips.
“Simone made impossible an opinion with that vault,” NBC analyst John Roethlisberger said on the telecast during the U.S. Olympic trials. Biles begins with a sprint down the runway and reaches her hands toward the ground while cartwheeling her legs over her head. The roundoff turns her momentum forward to backward. Slamming her feet down on the springboard, Biles compresses the springs that then uncoil and transfer energy back into her body as she reaches up and backward for the vault table.“Pre-springboard, all of their motion is forwards,” said Emily Kuhn, a physics PhD student at Yale who was a level 10 gymnast.
Jade Carey, Jordan Chiles, Simone Biles, Sunisa Lee and Hezly Rivera try on clothes at the Team USA Welcome Experience Ahead of Paris 2024 on July 22, 2024 in Paris, France. Former UCLA gymnast Nia Dennis knows the feeling. The three-time U.S. national team member trained a Yurchenko double tuck — with her knees bent and legs pulled toward her chest — into the foam pit during her elite career, eventually stacking up soft mats to be equal to competition height. While she is best known for her viral, energetic floor routines, Dennis loved vault the most. She still recalls the intoxicating feeling of hitting the perfect block that fired her into the air.
After Biles blocks off the vault, she is just a projectile, Kuhn emphasized. At that point, there is nothing she can do to change how high she is or her path through the air. “It’s really special to see the generations pass the torch and just how they’ve been able to take this sport by storm by creating all these new elements and really pushing the boundaries,” Peszek said. “Seeing her do it so effortlessly, it’s really a work of art to see.”
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