{"id":24175,"date":"2021-05-24T19:24:41","date_gmt":"2021-05-24T19:24:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/?post_type=articles&#038;p=24175"},"modified":"2021-05-25T13:50:03","modified_gmt":"2021-05-25T13:50:03","slug":"simone-biles-yurchenko","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/simone-biles-yurchenko\/","title":{"rendered":"Simone Biles Debuted A New Skill &amp; \u2014 Feels The Judges Underscored Her"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_24178\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24178\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-24178\" src=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-1319536438.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-24178\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Simone Biles during the 2021 U.S. Classic (Photo: Emilee Chinn\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Four-time <a href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/nike-unveil-2020-tokyo-olympic-uniforms-new-york-city\/\">Olympic gold medalist<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/beauty-essay-2020-election\/\">Simone Biles<\/a>, has once again set a new record for the world of gymnastics, but she\u2019s calling out the judges for their scoring. The 24-year-old athlete competed in the U.S. Classic this weekend, stirring up social media by landing a Yurchenko double pike. The Yurchenko double pike is considered so challenging that no other woman has attempted it in competition. Bile\u2019s new vault is so dangerous that <a href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/ole-henrikson-interview\/\">gymnastics<\/a> currently limits the scoring rewards for trying it. Biles says that it is unfair. Biles is the most decorated gymnast in history and is known for performing moves so difficult, and so distinctive, that several have been named after her.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Simone_Biles?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\">@Simone_Biles<\/a> successfully completed a Yurchenko double pike in vault at last night&#39;s <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/USClassic?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\">#USClassic<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>She is the first woman in HISTORY to perform the move in competition. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OnHerTurf?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\">@OnHerTurf<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/j07ZweTA0f\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/j07ZweTA0f<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; #TokyoOlympics (@NBCOlympics) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NBCOlympics\/status\/1396458393645187078?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\">May 23, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Biles performed the vault close to perfection, only making one flaw of over-rotating. The judges scoring her, however, were not impressed. Despite the move\u2019s difficulty, they gave it a provisional scoring value of 6.6, close to what Biles\u2019s other vaults have received. That limited the points available for performing it successfully, a point that a frustrated Biles suggested was unfair to her. \u201cI feel like now we just have to get what we get because there\u2019s no point in putting up a fight because they\u2019re not going to reward it,\u201d she says of judges and, ultimately, the International Gymnastics Federation (FIG), which has the final word on starting values for new vaults done in competition. \u201cSo we just have to take it and be quiet.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She believes her score should be 6.8 and U.S. high-performance team coordinator Tom Forster is with he; he agreed with Biles that a 6.6 was not high enough given the vault\u2019s difficulty. \u201cIt doesn\u2019t seem to be consistent with what they\u2019ve done with other vault values,\u201d he says, \u201cand I don\u2019t know why they do that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Biles compared the judges scoring to that of 2019 when she debuted a balance beam dismount that was given a difficulty score two tenths lower than what she believed it should be. Biles called that decision \u201cbullsh*t\u201d two years ago. The FIG chose the lower value in part due to concern over safety. Gymnasts could be more willing to try the dismount \u2014 a double-twisting double back \u2014 before they were ready if the difficulty value was higher. \u201cThere\u2019s no point in putting up a fight because they\u2019re not going to reward it the correct value, but that\u2019s OK,\u201d Biles said on Saturday, May 22, of the vault. \u201cThey\u2019re both too low, and they even know it, but they don\u2019t want the field to be too far apart. \u2026 They had an open-end Code of Points [instituted in 2006], and now they\u2019re mad that people are too far ahead and excelling.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Simone Biles is a legend. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/586eYpt5jd\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/586eYpt5jd<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; stas (@AstasiaWill) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AstasiaWill\/status\/1396459968241487882?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\">May 23, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Biles continues to excel within gymnastics and exceeds the expectations the sport originally created. After a successful competition this weekend, fans are excited to see what else Biles will do. The US Olympic Trials are set to take place from Friday, June 18 to Sunday, June 27. The 2020 Olympics after a postponement due to COVID-19, will begin July 23, 2021, in Tokyo, Japan.,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29095,"featured_media":24177,"template":"","format":"standard","categories":[38,16],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v18.5 (Yoast SEO v20.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Simone Biles Debuted A New Skill &amp; \u2014 Feels The Judges Underscored Her<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Four-time Olympic gold medalist, Simone Biles, has once again set a new record for the world of gymnastics, but she\u2019s calling out the judges for their scoring. 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