No One Can Forget the Vault

Before Simone Biles added her name to gymnastics rulebook with her signature vault, and even before McKayla Maroney sprinted down the runway on a broken foot, and stuck what is still globally considered the best vault ever, there was “the vault.” A piece of apparatus showed millions of viewers just how very important a few centimeters can be granting or denying the ever elusive Olympic dream. That’s right, in 2000, the vaulting apparatus was set at an incorrect setting, one notch too low. The results were disastrous and widely disregarded among fans. Was this event run properly? Should the entire competition have been restarted? One things for certain, stuff like this doesn’t happen at the Olympics...

This is one of the many reasons why the governing body of gymnastics changed the from a vaulting horse to a safer vaulting table. And as a result, the vaults we see today have more flips or twists than they did on the previous apparatus.

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