Simone Biles has made history countless times, not only for the number of titles she’s won but also the moves she’s been the first to perform in competitions.
Now the four-time Olympic gold medalist is aiming to get another move named after her at the 2024 Paris Olympics.
If she succeeds, it will be the sixth signature move named after Biles and the first on the uneven bars, meaning she will have skills named after her in every apparatus.
The skill Biles has submitted to the FIG Women’s Technical Committee for evaluation is a clear hip circle forward with 1.5 turns to a handstand, a variation of an existing element named for Wilhelm Weiler, a Canadian gymnast who competed in the 1964 Olympics, according to ESPN.
The skill has been awarded a preliminary difficulty value of E, which is the highest difficulty that can be assigned to turns on bars.
Biles currently has five signature moves named after her in three different events: on the floor, on vault, and on the balance beam.
In Paris, Biles will be competing in her third Olympics alongside fellow Americans Jordan Chiles, Jade Carey, Hezly Rivera and Suni Lee.
The women’s gymnastics competition kicks off in Paris on July 28.
Here is a look at the gymnastics moves that Biles has made her own.
Biles on the Vault
The “Biles on the vault,” a Yurchenko half-on with two twists, was first successfully completed on the world stage at the 2018 World Championships. Yurchenko is a type of move named after Soviet gymnast Natalia Yurchenko that involves a round-off onto the springboard, followed by a back handspring on the vault.
Biles does a round-off into a back hand-spring with a half turn, and completes the move by twisting twice in a somersault.
The Biles II on the Vault
In 2023, Biles became the first woman to land the Yurchenko double pike in international competition at the 2023 World Artistic Gymnastic Championships in Antwerp, Belgium.
From then on, the skill was named the Biles II.
The move consists of a backflip off the vault and two full rotations in a pike position before landing.
Biles on the Floor Exercise
The “Biles on the floor” was first successfully completed by Biles on the world stage in 2013 at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships. This move is a double layout with a half-twist, which means that her body remains straight and elongated as she flips twice. While in the air, she completes a half-twist.
What makes this move so challenging is the “blind landing,” Courtney Johnson, a USA Gymnastics-accredited judge told ABC News in 2021. This means that Biles can’t see the floor where she will land when she comes down from the flip.
Not only does she have to be extremely high in the air to do two full, stretched-out flips, but the half-twist makes this move more difficult, Johnson said.
