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08-18-2016, 04:40 AM
This chart shows just how high Simone Biles can jump
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American gymnast Simone Biles has dominated the Rio Olympics with five medals (four of them gold) but just as impressive as her medal haul is how she's gone about winning them: with gravity-defying flips, including one named after her.*
SEE ALSO: Simone Biles proves she's a badass once again (http://mashable.com/2016/08/14/simone-biles-wins-rio-2016-vault/)
While Biles has impressed with the air she gets on the vault and the balance beam, it's her execution of a move k**wn as "The Biles" that's been causing to jaws to drop. While she's been pulling off the move for a while **w, it got its biggest audience during the Rio competition.*
The Biles is "a double layout with a half-twist and a blind landing," according to the New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/08/11/sports/olympics/simone-biles-winning-moves.html). Sounds incredible e**ugh already, but, as a**ther excellent Times piece (http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/08/05/sports/olympics-gymnast-simone-biles.html?smid=fb-nytimes&smtyp=cur&_r=1) pointed out, it's execution is unlike anything else you saw in Rio.* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/08/17/how-high-does-simone-biles-jump/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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American gymnast Simone Biles has dominated the Rio Olympics with five medals (four of them gold) but just as impressive as her medal haul is how she's gone about winning them: with gravity-defying flips, including one named after her.*
SEE ALSO: Simone Biles proves she's a badass once again (http://mashable.com/2016/08/14/simone-biles-wins-rio-2016-vault/)
While Biles has impressed with the air she gets on the vault and the balance beam, it's her execution of a move k**wn as "The Biles" that's been causing to jaws to drop. While she's been pulling off the move for a while **w, it got its biggest audience during the Rio competition.*
The Biles is "a double layout with a half-twist and a blind landing," according to the New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/08/11/sports/olympics/simone-biles-winning-moves.html). Sounds incredible e**ugh already, but, as a**ther excellent Times piece (http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/08/05/sports/olympics-gymnast-simone-biles.html?smid=fb-nytimes&smtyp=cur&_r=1) pointed out, it's execution is unlike anything else you saw in Rio.* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/08/17/how-high-does-simone-biles-jump/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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