{"id":245877,"date":"2021-05-26T10:43:03","date_gmt":"2021-05-26T15:43:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=245877"},"modified":"2021-05-27T12:57:40","modified_gmt":"2021-05-27T17:57:40","slug":"simone-biles-foster-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/simone-biles-foster-care\/","title":{"rendered":"Former foster child Simone Biles is first woman to land Yurchenko double pike vault"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Simone Biles, World Champion and Olympic gold medal gymnast, made history on May 22, 2021, when she became the first woman in history to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/lifestyle\/sports\/biles-makes-history-with-yurchenko-double-pike-wins-title-us-classic-2021-05-23\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">land<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> a Yurchenko double pike vault. The 24-year-old American gymnast competed at the U.S. Classic in Indianapolis on Saturday, landing the difficult move and walking away with the all-around title. Saturday also marked Biles\u2019 first competition since October of 2019.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Yurchenko double pike has a 6.6 difficulty score and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=NESV8eu6k18\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">required<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0Biles to sprint down a runway, perform a roundoff onto a takeoff board, execute a back handspring with a half-twist onto a vault, double somersault off the vault, and land in a piked position.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;I was just thinking to do it like training, don&#8217;t try to overdo anything because I have a tendency as soon as I raise my hand to overpower things,&#8221; Biles told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/lifestyle\/sports\/biles-makes-history-with-yurchenko-double-pike-wins-title-us-classic-2021-05-23\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NBC Sports<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NESV8eu6k18\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Biles has won every meet she has been in since the 2013 U.S. Championships, including 19 gold medals, the most of any gymnast male or female in gymnastics history. In addition to the extensive hours and work put into becoming a world-class and highly decorated athlete, Biles has overcome seemingly insurmountable odds to achieve her dreams. Her birth mother<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0\u201c<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/simone-biles-foster-care-decorated-gymnast\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">struggled<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> with addiction and when Biles was just three years old, she and her siblings were taken from their mother and placed in foster homes.\u201d They were periodically rehomed over the next three years, understandably feeling invisible. Everything changed when Biles and her sister were adopted by their grandfather and his wife.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In a CNN op-ed, Biles <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2018\/02\/05\/opinions\/foster-care-education-olympics-opinion-biles\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">said<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of her suffering as a young child, \u201cAlthough I was young when my foster care ordeal began, I remember how it felt to be passed off and overlooked. Like nobody knew me or wanted to know me. Like my talents didn\u2019t count, and my voice didn\u2019t matter.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>READ:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/teen-mom-newborn-resaurant\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Teen mom with \u2018eyes of despair\u2019 hands newborn to restaurant customer, walks out<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After she was adopted, Biles said, \u201cFinding a family made me feel like I matter. Finding a passion, something I loved and was really good at, made me feel like I mattered.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As Live Action News has previously reported, there are \u201ccurrently over <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/eight-myths-foster-care-truth\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>400,000<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> children in the United States foster care system.\u201d Over 100,000 of these children are eligible for adoption. Each of them has his or her own unique gifts and talents waiting to be discovered.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/liveactionnewsonline\/\">\u201cLike\u201d Live Action News on Facebook<\/a>\u00a0for more pro-life news and commentary!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Simone Biles, World Champion and Olympic gold medal gymnast, made history on May 22, 2021, when she became the first woman in history to land a Yurchenko double pike vault. The 24-year-old American gymnast competed at the U.S. Classic in Indianapolis on Saturday, landing the difficult move and walking away with the all-around title. 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