Simone Biles had to be content with silver in the vault at the world championships after she over-rotated her signature Yurchenko double pike and fell backward on the mat. Rebeca Andrade was nearly fl
ANTWERP, Belgium -- The acrobatics that Simone Biles tries are so extreme and difficult that even when she does not execute to perfection, she still ends up on a world podium.
Biles' second vault was an excellent Cheng to finish with a combined score of 14.549. Andrade was nearly flawless to snatch the gold medal by 0.201 points. Yeo Seo-jeong of South Korea took the bronze with 14.416."I'm happy for my result, but sad about the fall because we know how much athletes train to do this vault," Andrade said through an interpreter.
But the start value of the Biles II is so high that even the fall did not hurt her chances of medaling.
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