The Yurchenko double pike requires Biles to race down the runway before doing a roundoff/back handspring onto the table followed by two backward flips with her arms clasped behind her knees.

Over the last year, she has mastered it. It became the fifth element named after her in the sport’s Code of Points when she did it at the 2023 world championships.

On the surface, she makes it look easy. Underneath, it actually makes her anxious. Power isn’t the only thing the YDP requires. Control is important, too. Go in too hard and you might land on your back. Too little, and you come up short and crunch your ankles and just about everything else.

Landi pantomimed “calm down” before Biles saluted the judges, then watched her do what the woman who describes herself as “Simone Biles from Spring, Texas, who flips” does as well as any gymnast — male or female — has ever done.

She flew. She soared off the table and landed with a big bounce — a nod to the energy she generates — with her right foot on the out-of-bounds line.

The judges dinged her a tenth of a point for that. It hardly mattered.

Her score of 15.700 meant she merely needed to avoid disaster on her second vault to win. Instead, she almost stuck her Cheng, which requires a roundoff onto the springboard, and a half twist onto the block followed by 1 1/2 twists while doing a forward somersault. The 14.9 she received meant the fight for gold was over.

Rebeca Andrade of Brazil, who finished runner-up to Biles in the all-around final on Thursday, edged American Jade Carey for silver. Not that Carey was complaining. Three years after tripping during the vault final and finishing last, Carey achieved the “redemption” she was looking for when she pointed to an Olympic return.

“I wanted to prove to myself that I can do two vaults in the final,” Carey said. “(To) walk away with the medal is really special for me.”

Carey’s Olympics are over. Biles’ are not. She will have two more chances to boost her medal haul in Paris in the balance beam and floor exercise finals Monday.

Biles has 10 career medals, tied for the third most by a female gymnast in Olympic history. Two more before she heads back to Texas and she would find herself all alone in second behind Larisa Latynina, who piled up 18 while competing for the Soviet Union in the 1950s and 1960s.

• Rhys McClenaghan delivered Ireland’s first medal in Olympic gymnastics by edging Nariman Kurbanov of Kazakhstan and American star Stephen Nedoroscik in a taut pommel horse final.

The two-time world champion knew he drilled his set, fighting back tears as he dismounted. He couldn’t stop them from falling after his massive score of 15.533 points flashed.

• Carlos Yulo won the second Olympic gold medal ever for the Philippines, edging defending champion Artem Dolgopyat of Israel in the men’s floor exercise finals.