Simone Biles and her ever-expanding array of signature skills sure look ready for the Tokyo Olympics Time on her hands and a world-class gym at her disposal after the 2020 Olympics were postponed, Simone Biles started experimenting almost as a way to stave off the monotony of training. Pretty soon a vault that she occasionally tinkered with for fun – the Yurchenko double pike – started to look like a vault she could pull off in competition.
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Simone Biles lands the Yurchenko double pike while competing on the vault during the 2021 GK US Classic gymnastics competition. So what if it had only historically been done by men? So what if the International Gymnastics Federation seemed intent on not giving the vault a difficulty value commensurate with its complexity?
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2 May 2021
Some British gymnasts are pushing back against what they call “outdated and sexist” leotard rules that dictate what they are allowed to wear during competition.
British olympian Jennifer Pinches, a member of Team Great Britain in 2021, told the
Sunday Times that the leotards athletes are asked to wear are “perpetuating extremely harmful ideals.”
The controversy comes after gymnasts from other European nations have begun adopting full-length bodysuits during competition. Specifically, as the
Daily Mailreports, “…German gymnast Sarah Voss set a trend by wearing a full length bodysuits to compete at the 2021 European Gymnastics Championships in April in favour of the traditionally worn leotard.”
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She was closely followed by Elisabeth Seitz and Kim Bui, who wore similar suits during the women s all-round final.
In a message shared on her Instagram account, Ms Voss wrote that the decision to wear the full length version of the leotards, called a unitard, was close to the hearts of her team and that she was immensely proud to wear it. Feeling good and still looking elegant. Why not? she wrote.
Gymnasts do have the choice to wear unitards at the European Championships, but there are traditionally worn for religious reasons, and seeing the style worn at a high profile competition is rare.
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