PARIS : Simone Biles and Rebeca Andrade have already thrilled fans including Tom Cruise and Snoop Dogg with their high-flying performances at the Olympics, but the top gymnasts have yet to debut their unprecedented tricks in the Bercy Arena.
FILE PHOTO: Paris 2024 Olympics - Artistic Gymnastics - Women's Team Final - Bercy Arena, Paris, France - July 30, 2024. Simone Biles of United States in action on the floor exercise. REUTERS/Amanda Perobelli/File Photo
Thursday's all-around final is U.S. star Biles' last chance to attempt her asymmetric bar move, a clear hip circle forward with 1.5 turns to handstand, since she did not qualify for the apparatus final. " we are in the finals, then it's better to see the scenario, and we must see what we need to get the medals," Brazilian coach Francisco Porath Neto told reporters in Paris of the game-time strategy.For 25-year-old Andrade, who led her team to a historic bronze on Tuesday, the Yurchenko triple twist may be necessary in the vault final if Biles hits her Yurchenko double pike, called the Biles II.
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