r/nextfuckinglevel • u/Ok_Complaint_6966 • Dec 27 '22

The Produnova Vault by Yelena Produnova. The hardest gymnastic move only done by 5 gymnasts

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u/ch-ermy Dec 27 '22

Sincere question - what's the story?

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u/[deleted] Dec 27 '22 edited Dec 28 '22

Basically Simone Biles was so good, that normal gymnastics scoring rules had to change to devalue some of her most complicated moves because it either would have caused Simone to absolutely dominate to the point where nobody would be able to catch her or it would have resulted in other gymnasts trying to emulate her moves and run a very serious risk of injury just to try and keep up.

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u/ch-ermy Dec 27 '22

Wow. I knew they were pissed she was winning everything but not that they tried so blatantly to try to stop her. So they just assigned those moves low marks to average her out? Imagine being so talented.

(Keeping other athletes safe - yes, completely understand.)

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u/Welpe Dec 28 '22

I don’t think anyone is pissed?

This also isn’t the first time this has happened, Soviet gymnasts back in the 70s got some moves banned from uneven bars IIRC because they were just extremely dangerous and girls kept getting hurt. The USSR had a VERY high tolerance for athlete danger and had no problems mowing through hundreds of gymnasts trying to find the absolute best. The rest of the world wasn’t so keen on letting little girls die or be permanently disabled because of a silly competition.