Simone Biles was credited for being the first woman to land the Yurchenko double pike. But the judges gave her a provisional score of 6.6, which is similar to Biles’ scores for her other vaults.
Here & Now‘s Tonya Mosley speaks with freelance journalist Dvora Meyers about the controversy surrounding the score.
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