Incredible! That balance beam is only four (4"
inches wide! She must have been about 12 feet up in the air at the time that she started that triple. That balance beam is 4' 1" off the ground and Biles is 4' 8" tall. She probably has about a 40+ inch vertical jump maybe more with forward body momentum when running. Her legs remind me of the legs of David Skywalker Thompson of the the NBA or Paul Stovall of the NBA -- real jumpers and leapers.
Balance beam, gymnastics apparatus used in women's competition. It is a wooden beam 5 meters (16.4 feet) long, 10 cm (4 inches) wide, and raised 125 cm (4.1 feet) from the floor.
Nobody beats Olga Korbut on the beam. I've never seen another athelete who could do the chest roll on the beam like Korbut.
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