Full-Twisting Double Pike (Floor Exercise)

Bridget Sloan – 2009 US Nationals Day 2
Lorrane Oliveira – 2021 Doha World Cup

Event
Floor exercise

Skill type
Acrobatic

Value
E

Known as
Pike(d) full-in
Double pike 1/1
Full-twisting double pike

Named after
Lorrane Oliveira (BRA) – 2021
(double Arabian 1/2 out version only)

About
Code of Points gonna Code of Points. In the 2025 update, it was decided that the Oliveira—originally credited as a double Arabian piked with 1/2 twist out and awarded to Lorrane Oliveira at the 2021 Apparatus World Cup in Doha—would be lumped together with all backward double saltos in tucked or piked position with a full twist at any point. Everything is the same as everything.

This means the double Arabian piked is an F (0.6) element, while the double Arabian piked with an additional 1/2 twist at the end is an E (0.5) element. So, you lose a tenth for adding a half twist. Why no, that doesn’t make any sense.

What the code of points wants to say is that Oliveira actually performed kind of a piked Arabian first salto and then half-turned to a back pike second salto, and that this shouldn’t be evaluated as a double salto in the forward tumbling position. But what they ended up saying is that a double Arabian piked 1/2 doesn’t exist and it’s just a piked full-in.

Because gymnastics is a comedy, not a drama