Simone Biles submitted paperwork at the Paris Olympic Games to get an uneven bars skill named after her. Here’s what needs to happen for that to occur.
Some elite athletes make history by winning medals or breaking records. Gymnasts can etch their names in the books by doing that, sure, but they also have another option: Create a new skill, land it successfully, and it just might officially carry your name…forever. Over the years, several daring gymnasts have permanently attached their names to a specific skill. It’s probably not surprising that Olympic champion Simone Biles is one of them.
And if more than one gymnast at the same competition does the same new skill? Then it will be named after all the gymnasts. So far, Biles is one of four female gymnasts who have submitted paperwork for a new skill at the Olympics—her uneven bars move has been rated a difficulty value of E, making it worth 0.5 in difficulty. She joins Brazilian Rebeca Andrade and Dutch gymnasts Lieke Wevers and Naomi Visser, who are both submitting the same move on floor.
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