” I agree with that. Biles is the only one in the world to achieve this jump” – Rodionenko about the element named after the American

Senior coach of the Russian artistic gymnastics team Valentina Rodionenko told that she had a normal attitude towards the International Gymnastics Federation’s (FIG) decision to name a complicated version of Yurchenko’s vault after four-time American Olympic champion Simone Biles.

The Yurchenko vault is named after Soviet gymnast Natalia Yurchenko. In 2021, Biles performed a more difficult version of the jump, including a double backflip, at an official tournament in the United States. FIG previously announced that this element would now be called “Biles 2”.

— Yurchenko’s jump remains. Biles just complicated things, she added twists and turns. Therefore, the Yurchenko jump remains the Yurchenko jump, and the new complicated jump will be called Biles. I’m completely normal about this. She is the only one in the world to do it. So far, no one else is jumping on him,” Rodionenko told .

Biles’ vault is the fifth gymnastic element named after him. Only the five-time Olympic champion of the USSR Nelly Kim has more – seven.