Simone Biles - First woman to complete a triple flip!

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

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[2naSalit]

1. She's amazing!

[spicysista]

2. Stunning!

Those moves are difficult to perform on the ground. On the beam?!?
She's majestic.
Geaux Team USA!

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

3. ..and she is performing in pain.

[spicysista]

5. I saw that! Her mental and physical strength is off the charts!

https://youtube.com/shorts/9NUIW43jYFo?si=JOBW-SglySL8wJUJ

Her coach says that she should still be able to compete for the rest of the competition. I'm so proud of her and the rest of Team USA.

[Lunabell]

4. Wow! Flawless!

I am so impressed with this woman and her ability to not only compete in her late twenties, but to excel and even out-do her previous work. A gymnast is usually on the downward trajectory at her age, but she just continues to get better and better.

WOW!

[hlthe2b]

6. Wow! Just phenomenal. I love when they go back decades to the "Perfect 10" winners of decades past...

How far the gymnasts have come since then. WOW!

[oswaldactedalone]

7. INCREDIBLE

and yes, I know I was shouting.

[et tu]

13. ditto!!!!! nt

[twodogsbarking]

8. Phenominal. Break out the thesaurus. I can't describe it.

[Wild blueberry]

9. Spectacular!

Thank you, Simone Biles. You're the BEST.

[Tarzanrock]

10. Incredible!

Incredible! That balance beam is only four (4&quot inches wide! She must have been about 12 feet up in the air at the time that she started that triple. That balance beam is 4' 1" off the ground and Biles is 4' 8" tall. She probably has about a 40+ inch vertical jump maybe more with forward body momentum when running. Her legs remind me of the legs of David Skywalker Thompson of the the NBA or Paul Stovall of the NBA -- real jumpers and leapers.

Balance beam, gymnastics apparatus used in women's competition. It is a wooden beam 5 meters (16.4 feet) long, 10 cm (4 inches) wide, and raised 125 cm (4.1 feet) from the floor.

Nobody beats Olga Korbut on the beam. I've never seen another athelete who could do the chest roll on the beam like Korbut.

https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/olga-korbut-the-russian-gymnast-doing-a-chest-roll-on-the-news-photo/2628427?adppopup=true

[alfredo]

18. Korbut was a contortionist and she used that discipline

In gymnastics. It was unorthodox, but it was what was needed in that discipline.
My wife was a gymnast, specializing on the balance beam. She taught me how to watch and appreciate gymnastic.

[ananda]

11. Perfection! I've never seen anything like it!

Wow

[tavernier]

12. I don't understand how every year these athletes break more and more record.

Just pure physics says that the time will come when a record is unbreakable, but as yet they keep doing it

[LymphocyteLover]

14. unreal!

[LymphocyteLover]

15. Did she get the gold?

[oswaldactedalone]

22. Not decided yet

Sunday was qualifying for team, all-around, and apparatus competitions.

[TNNurse]

16. Damn, she is impressive.

I wonder if she might become a coach. So much talent and knowledge.
We are watching some qualifying. A French gymnast who is just 16. How in the world does someone that age have the poise and control to compete at that level? So impressive.
At 16, I could twirl a baton at a football game, in a parade and in competition in my state. To do it in front of an international audience is just so stunning.

[Hekate]

17. 🌈🦋 STUNNING 🦋🦋

TY so much for posting this

[snot]

19. WOW, truly unbelievable!

I like that one can slow it down using the YouTube controls.

It might be interesting to see footage shot from a Go-Pro attached to her forehead (though it might make me queasy)!

[calimary]

20. Brilliant.

She’s like a little magic fairy! Floats like a butterfly and lands with a fistbump!

[Marthe48]

21. I nominate Simone Biles for VP

My friend and I watched this clip and we both teared up. It is a fantastic year for fantastic women!