Definitions

1. Yurchenko is the name of both a specific vault and a vault family in artistic gymnastics. (Web site)
2. Yurchenko was a KGB officer in the Fifth Department of the Directorate K. He defected to the US only to later repatriate to the Soviets.
3. The Yurchenko was named after Soviet gymnast Natalia Yurchenko, who originated the vault in the early 1980s.
4. While Yurchenko was being debriefed in Washington, Howard was meeting with the KGB in Vienna.

Yurchenko Two-And-A-Half Vault

1. Her final event was vault, and Johnson retained her lead with her 15.950 on her Yurchenko two-and-a-half vault.

Solid Yurchenko

1. Olympian Bridget Sloan sits in third, after a fall on beam (tour jete half), but tied for first on vault with a solid Yurchenko double twist.

High Yurchenko

1. Asi Peko earned fourth all-around and showcased a high Yurchenko double full on vault (14.700).

Floor

1. She performed a double twisting Yurchenko on vault and a double Arabian as her first pass on floor. (Web site)
2. The U.S. will need her double-twisting Yurchenko vault and possibly floor in team finals, and she can compete on any event in prelims.

Day

1. She won the Olympic vault event the day before largely due to a 9.875 for an enormous double-twisting Yurchenko vault.

Course

1. During the course of these debriefings, Ames took Rosario to the safe house where Yurchenko was staying, again violating CIA regulations.

Coaches

1. Even in 2006, gymnasts and coaches continue to develop more difficult versions of the Yurchenko.

Trials

1. Hong placed fifth all-around at both the U.S. championships and trials, and she has a double-twisting Yurchenko.

Sticking

1. UCLA finished its meet on vault, and Berlin once again had a huge routine to lead off, sticking her Yurchenko full vault with ease for a 9.85. (Web site)

Right Back

1. Three months after arriving in Washington, Yurchenko got up from his table at a Georgetown restaurant and told his CIA escort that he'd be right back.

Performing

1. Performing the most difficult vault in the entire competition, a double-twisting Yurchenko, she won a bronze in that event (9.912). (Web site)

Cheng

1. But Cheng Fei, whose double-twisting Yurchenko is the toughest vault any woman tries, put up the highest scores of the meet on both vault and floor. (Web site)

World Team

1. Olympic medalist and crowd favorite Alicia Sacramone competed beam and vault (Handspring Rudi; Yurchenko double) and looks to be a lock for the World team. (Web site)

Cia

1. Nevertheless, to this day the CIA blindly insists that, somehow, Yurchenko really had been a genuine defector. (Web site)
2. Soon afterward, as a result of the debriefings of Yurchenko, the CIA deter mined that "Robert" was, in fact, Edward Lee Howard.

Good Form

1. On vault she performed an almost stuck yurchenko 1.5 which good form in the air. (Web site)

Liukin

1. Liukin performed a Yurchenko with one and a half twists, sticking her landing. (Web site)

Score

1. On vault, she performed a double-twisting Yurchenko to score a 9.750.
2. Bross' 14.850 for her double-twisting Yurchenko vault put her in third with a total score of 29.950.

Team Competition

1. At the Friendship Games in Olomouc, Yurchenko battled with Olga Mostepanova and managed to win the gold medal on the vault and in the team competition. (Web site)

Scoring

1. In the second rotation, Artemev jumped to 12th after scoring a 15.975 on his Yurchenko 2.5 vault.
2. But her crowning moment came when she became the Olympic vault champion, largely due to her scoring a 9.875 for an enormous double-twisting Yurchenko vault.

Top Scorer

1. Cheng Fei was the top scorer at 16.0 on her Yurchenko 2 ½ vault.

Competition

1. Her Balance Beam work has garnered a 15.250 in competition and her Double Twisting Yurchenko vault is pretty clean by Romanian standards.

First Time

1. On the final day of the selection camp, Memmel nailed a bars routine and landed a double twisting Yurchenko for the first time in competition since 2006.

Full

1. She accomplished this by successfully competing a Yurchenko Full as her second vault, which she was unable to practice all year due to a foot injury.
2. She is still performing a yurchenko full but it was very well done with stuck landing. (Web site)
3. Comforte hopped back on her first vault, a Yurchenko full, and scored 9.8375. (Web site)

Shawn Johnson

1. Starting on vault was a bit tough for Shawn Johnson who landed short on her yurchenko 2 �.

Johnson

1. Johnson scored a 15.875 for her Yurchenko 2.5 vault, and Liukin earned a 15.025 for her Yurchenko 1.5.
2. Johnson was up next, performing a Yurchenko with two and a half twists, markedly harder than Liukin's vault.
3. In the individual all-around competition, Johnson performed a double-twisting Yurchenko vault and scored 15.175.

Vaulted

1. Her last event was vault where she again vaulted a great double twisting yurchenko and scored a solid 14.950.
2. She later vaulted a stellar handspring Rudi and high Yurchenko double for the top spot on vault (15.350). (Web site)
3. To finish the meet off, she vaulted a great double twisting yurchenko and score a 15.0 (A score 5.8).

Balance Beam

1. Yurchenko (vault) and Yurchenko loop (balance beam), after Natalia Yurchenko (USSR). (Web site)
2. In the all-around, Mo produced a beautiful Yurchenko double full and a solid routine on the unevens and balance beam.

Highest Score

1. Flohr earned the highest score on uneven bars, 15.350, while Johnson was best on vault, where her double-twisting Yurchenko scored 15.000 points. (Web site)

Floor Exercise

1. She had an out-of-bounds on the Floor Exercise and had to tuck down her Yurchenko 1.5 vault in order to make the landing.
2. She took the highest scores of the day on vault (double-twisting Yurchenko) and floor exercise (double layout; two whips to triple twist).

Sloan

1. Both Bross and Sloan performed a Yurchenko double full.
2. Sloan earned the second-highest score on vault with a 15.150 on her Yurchenko double.

Twist

1. She is weakest on vault, like Nastia, both competing a yurchenko 1 � twist.
2. Bridget wowed Marta with a new and more powerful vault, a “Yurchenko double twist.” Jana missed bars earlier today, which didn't help her cause.
3. Backward stretched salto and a twist, Yurchenko, forward piked salto and a significant step to the side at landing.

Yurchenko Vault

1. Shushunova is renowned for her dynamic vaulting and tumbling skills; she was the first to perform a Yurchenko vault with 1.5 twists.

Vaults

1. LSU's Susan Jackson won the vault title with a 9.8563 average on her two vaults (Yurchenko full, Yurchenko 1.5). (Web site)
2. Silver medalist Maria Vargas (Spain) and bronze medalist Carlotta Ferlito (Italy) both performed vaults of Yurchenko-full (5.0) and Yurchenko layout (4.4).

Vault

1. Find out what a Yurchenko vault is in gymnastics, and watch videos of a Yurchenko. (Web site)
2. Johnson fell trying to land a difficult Yurchenko vault with two and a half somersaults for the first time in competition. (Web site)
3. Apart from being one of the strongest gymnasts of the 1980s, she originated such popular gymnastics elements as Yurchenko vault and Yurchenko loop.

Yurchenko

1. Her highest score of the day was on vault where she scored a 14.750 for a Yurchenko double full. (Web site)
2. For her second vault, she competed a Yurchenko 1.5 for the first time since the 2004 Olympic Trials but could not hold onto the landing, scoring 9.225. (Web site)
3. Vault. Sacramone scored a 15.750 on her first vault, a Rudi, and followed with a 15.325 for her Yurchenko double, averaging a score of 15.537.

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