Simone Biles casually takes down Yurchenko’s most dangerous safe in Tokyo Olympic training race

Look, everything else can go to hell in Tokyo, but not for Simone Biles. The American gymnast wowed fans on Thursday even before officially entering the 2020 Summer Games – posting a video of herself performing a Yurchenko double pike – described as a flare on the springboard, followed by a jump back on the jump – something a non-female gymnast has done in competition before and what Biles did with two handsprings at the end in her practice video. In her post, she wrote 2020 with the open-eyed emoji, as if to make fans wonder if she will add it to her competition routine. Gymnastics analysts, however, say she might not perform the dangerous jump during competition due to the risk of injury and because she doesn’t need it to prove her extreme talent.