TRULY TIMES 10 SPORTS JAMMU, THURSDAY, MAY 27, 2021 Be matured and make comeback for Pakistan: Simone Biles’s giant Shoaib Akhtar’s advice for Muhammad Amir leap for women Acing the Yurchenko Double Pike proves American legend goes where no other woman, and few men, venture Simone Biles had a signa- men.” women’s four apparatus – The reason Biles’ ture Rhinestone Goat Having picked his 2010 Balance beam, Floor and Yurchenko vault might be embroidered on the back of CWG bronze on a similar Vault – rely on lower limbs, more exciting than the the leotard. The real state- Yurchenko round-off (one- unlike only two off five for 100m sprint at Tokyo – both Former Pakistan fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar has urged ment though was made hand first cartwheel) vault, men, yet, the Yurchenko events take roughly the Muhammad Amir to show “maturity” in sorting out his dif- when female gymnastics’ Kumar’s proficiency arms double pike wasn’t attempt- same time – is how smooth- ferences with national team management and make a greatest spine sprung off the him with the knowledge that ed by women and stayed ly she managed to pull it off. comeback in near future. board and launched itself the back-flips that the rare for men too. When word first got out Amir had announced his retirement from international into a Yurchenko double American rolled out over Vault specialist McKayla of Biles going for the cricket in December last year after a fallout with head pike orbit at the US Classic the weekend of the US Maroney is supposed to Yurchenko double pike, she coach Misbahul Haq and bowling coach Waqar Younis. on Saturday. No other Classic Championships are have tried a double tuck had told Texas Monthly: The left-arm paceman who now only freelances in T20 woman had ever tried the proof of her ability to defy (knees to the chest) in 2015, “So far, we’ve been training leagues across the globe has made it clear that he will not risky Yurchenko double physics and do wondrous but was dissuaded by coach- it pretty consistently and make himself available for selection until they are in pike in competition before things in flight. es citing the risks, according there haven’t been too many charge. Biles. Habitual risk-taker to Rockergymnastics.com. times where I was like, ‘Oh, “Amir should have realized that ‘papa’ Mickey Arthur “I was just thinking, ‘Do Biles scored 16.1 on her Named after 1996 Greek that was really scary. Maybe will not always be there to safeguard him and he has to now it like training. Don’t try to Big Y. A winner of 25 World Olympic champion Ioannis we shouldn’t do that.’ It’s grow up,” Akhtar told PTV. like overdo anything,’” the Championship medals and Melissanidis, the pike was actually been like, ‘Wow, The outspoken fast bowler of yesteryears said that play- American gymnast, a legiti- easily the biggest star of the most famously summoned this is feasible, we can do ers should have the wherewithal to handle both good and mate claimant to the GOAT Rio Olympics with six by Briton Kristian Thomas this.’ And that’s kind of the bad days. (Greatest of All Time) tag, medals, the 24-year-old in the all-around team event scary part, me testing my “You must be matured enough to realise that the manage- said. “Because I have a ten- already had an eponymous to get the 2012 Games host limits, proving myself ment is not going to act according to my wishes. Therefore dency as soon as I raise my skill (Biles vault – than on the ground in mes- Roughly, she sprints nation a historic bronze. wrong, and being like, now I have to raise my performance and level of hard hand to kind of overpower Yurchenko with two twists). merised gymnastics arenas. down the runway, takes a Russian Natalia Yurchenko ‘Dang, Simone you can do work,” he said. things, and I did a little bit, But after smoothly sticking “Her landings are so perfect round-off onto the bouncy did a single flip back in the this. That’s insane.’ He gave the example of senior batsman Muhammad but at least I was on my feet. her brand-new vault, she and beautiful,” he gushes, “I springboard, which fuses 1980s, but an additional Honestly, at this age, I feel Hafeez noting at time that the Pakistan management was It’s a new vault and I’m should head into Tokyo with think this is tougher than the into a back Handspring on rotation as the L-shaped like I would kind of start not with him. proud of how today went.” a Biles 2 (two twists Produnova.” the vault. Imagine an invert- body descends to stick ram- going down, but I’m still “The management was also against Hafeez. But he just Pushing off the vault with upgraded to two flips in Currently the Handspring ed hands-arched up- rod straight is altogether going up.” made runs and nothing else. He didn’t give the manage- palms and gaining enough piked or straight-legged somersault holds the highest Laughing Buddha, and then trickier. While India’s handful of ment an envelope full of cash. Amir should learn that from height to launch into two position, body bent 90 D-score of 6.0 despite a pushing off those straight- Kumar recalls his con- top-grade gymnasts, led by Hafeez,” he added. back-flips with stretched degrees at hips) taking the downgrade. Biles’ two flip lined palms to launch into temporary, Mayank the inimitably bold Dipa The 29-year-old, who was once jailed for spot-fixing, has legs, to nail a straight land- risk-taking many notches Yurchenko is provisionally two aerial flips in pike posi- Srivastav, trying to perfect Karmakar, have routinely signed a contract to play in the CPL for Barbados. He will ing, made it a no-go for any higher. History, though, has pegged at 6.6. tion – knees straight, hips the very same vault at gone for broke with high- also be seen in action in the Pakistan Super League match- woman before Flying been made already as she Rendering glass ceilings bent, before landing starch- Allahabad, without ade- risk routines, the Americans es in Abu Dhabi next month for the Karachi Kings team. Queen Simone. registered a stick landing to smithereens might be the backed in a straight line. quate repetitions, and end- tend to be conservative and Akhtar reminded Amir that he should be grateful to the Indian gymnast and for- returning to competition lesser source of excitement, “If a vaulter doesn’t get ing up tragically paralysed risk-averse. “Why take former PCB chairman Najam Sethi, who had a massive role mer Commonwealth Games after 587 days. as Biles elevates – literally – enough height off the table in 2017-18. “I think he tried chances when you can score in bringing him back into international cricket post his ban. medallist Ashish Kumar “If she competes on the the sport of gymnastics to (the push or block) to factor 1-2 times, managed, got high in execution on the sta- “This is a favor the PCB did for Amir. To his credit, Amir made the nebulous declara- vault and Floor with the the next level. in enough rotations, she can emboldened and went for a ple vaults is the thinking,” won some crucial matches for Pakistan in the Champions tion, that’s echoing across guys, you never know, she It’s the height Biles gains injure her head or neck. third without proper soft Kumar explains the Trophy which included the final but after that his perform- the world: “Simone Biles can beat them,” Kumar says from the repulsion phase on Also, the impact on the hard mats. He couldn’t catch his approach. But American ances deteriorated.” can control gravity. Her of the otherworldly gym- the vaulting table that easily surface makes it a clear risk leg tuck, landed on the neck, gymnastics went belly-up, Akhtar supported coach Misbah’s stance on Amir. landing of the latest vault, nast, who has four skills in sets her apart from her com- for ankles which is why his lower body rotated back plunging into ignominy “Misbah is right when he says that Amir’s pace has gone the Yurchenko Double Pike, her name already, and is petitors, gender notwith- women haven’t preferred and spine squeezed,” he after the Larry Nassar scan- down. There is nothing wrong with that assessment,” he is 10 times better than the often seen more in flight standing. it,” Kumar says. Three of recalls. dal soon after Rio. said. 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