Simone Biles debuts historic new move and wins first competition of 2021 | NBC Sports

and now the first out four for simone biles who starts on balance beam and just to mention on the back of her leotard not sure if you guys saw that there's a little goat yes in rhinestones what does that mean it means exactly what she is she is the greatest gymnast of all time and she has a lot more to do [Applause] so beautiful series wow in the lead up for rio she was doing a very risky skill that she no longer does because she doesn't need to do it so a skill that bears her name is the dismount a double twisting double somersault but at the last world championships it was given too low of a difficulty level full twisting double [Applause] once again just simone things putting a check putting a check by that routine moving on to the next event speaking of the world championships last time around she became the most decorated gymnast man or a woman in the history of 25 metal 19 of them gold and you referenced it but she does a lot of things that simone biles doesn't have to do absolutely you know what she did in rio the gymnastics she had five years ago if she were to go to tokyo and do those same routines she would be the olympic all-around champion here's that series so back handspring back layout back layout every single thing that she does on the balance beam it's almost as if she's just warming up on the floor not on a beam that's four inches wide how about the number now the difficulty plus the execution and in green that just to give you a little guidance comparing it to the scores that we see at the international level to the floor and simone biles five-time world champ in the all-around what's that song nobody does it better that's for sure so there are two biles in this routine the first one is a triple twisting double somersault and the second one is the first element that bears her name in the gymnastics code of points a double layout with a half turn [Music] [Music] [Music] uh [Music] [Music] wow and that is something that you just do not see happen simone jordan under rotating her dismount and you know that's that last tumbling pass that double twisting double back is not easy by any means a lot of people can't even do that in their first in their first pass yeah and she's already done three outrageous tumbling runs excellent safe below average green yellow red just to give you some indication comparing to the scores that we see at the highest level difficulty than execution 14.25 the number on floor for simone back in indianapolis ready to watch simone biles do something astonishing once again and forget about her how much have you guys thought about this the last couple of days i i mean since the very first moment that we actually saw this with our own eyes right in front of us i it has been absolutely unbelievable to watch every single time here we go wow unbelievable [Applause] you know yesterday simone told us that she likes to let her gymnastics speak for her well the queen has definitely spoken even her coaches were shaking their heads at the end and they've seen her do it so good [Music] huge air that is three flips three times around from board to matt and you know a lot of people worry that you're not gonna have enough power or height or in the air and look at this over rotated it yeah yeah that's that's how big that was wow and everybody was thinking that you know when she announced this a lot of the experts were out there saying you know she doesn't need to do it why would she do this the potential for you know getting hurt you know is so great but they haven't really seen simone biles because okay she has done four of those today which is very unusual in one no he's yeah no four of them yesterday yes the first woman to do that in competition you saw the graphic the difficulty score 6.6 you know it's it's we talk about small like royalty because when you fly like that your crown never comes loose even if you have a mistake you know we talk about kind of all throughout the competition how important it is if you have a mistake to move on to that next event and and of course she had a mistake on the floor exercise earlier but going from what just happened on the previous event for her which was the vault the historic fault and now shifting your mind onto the event that you quote unquote hate trying to trick your mind into embracing it somehow i'm wondering if the judges don't know it's simone right there you can't make the greatest of all time weight a little bit of problem on this in warm-ups and wow she struggled on that not just today but in warm-ups yesterday as well i saw her have some problems looking at her hands right here just doesn't quite get over the bar almost she stepped on her fingers actually yeah she did she's gonna most likely repeat this skill yes she is there you go big combination now down to the low double twisting double somersault really [Music] good [Music] [Applause] we welcome in simone biles champ once again simone made history again tonight awfully exciting for all of us to see that it's been a while since your last competition what was it like competing again yeah it was really nerve-wracking but i'm just happy to be back out here competing on the competition floor in an arena with all the girls especially after the long gear and the time off we've had so obviously we have to just ask you about the vault what exactly what are you thinking the moment that the green light came on and you were about to compete for the very first time i was just thinking do it like training don't try to like overdo anything because i have a tendency as soon as i raise my hand to kind of overpower things and i did a little bit but at least i still was on my feet it's a new vault and i'm proud of how today went even though it's a little bit rough and uncharacteristic but it was okay yeah you're always fantastic simone that is for sure but i have to ask you you know doing that vault it's speed and power and aggression it's all out and then you have to go to bars where it's kind of like a little bit more finesse yeah is that a challenge doing bars after doing that incredible vault yes most definitely it's hard to kind of get my mood down and try to slow down things because vault is a power event and bars you have to let it swing and that's one of my mental events too so i'm trying to really work on that especially with the year that we have and we don't have much time till championships but i feel fairly confident going into championships after we go back home and train hey simone one more question i want to take you back to vault for a moment if you will do you have a sense like the rest of us do how big it is the moment i mean lebron james retweeting the video from yesterday i mean it's just everywhere yeah it is everywhere it's pretty crazy but it's also really nice to see all the support from all the athletes all over the world well congratulations great to see you back in competition thank you yet another win tonight here in indianapolis best of luck thank you so much you

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Length: 11min 30sec (690 seconds)

Published: Sat May 22 2021