The current Olympic champion, Suni Lee, has been training 2 new vaults, besides the double-twisting Yurchenko she has competed during her entire elite career since she became a senior gymnast in 2019.

For her NCAA vault, she has been doing a round-off, flic-flac with ½ turn on – tucked salto forward with ½ twist (180°) off, called the Servente, which, in the elite gymnastics Code of Points, it has a difficulty value (DV) of 4.00, in training, she has been doing the same vault with an extra twist, called the Khorkina, which has a 4.80 DV. Taking into account the 5.00 DV that her main elite vault, the double-twisting Yurchenko, has, she could have a decent vault program, that will allow her to take part in vault finals at the world or Olympic championships.

Suni has also been training a round-off, flic-flac with ½ turn on followed by salto forward stretched with ½ twist off, while this particular vault is only worth 4.80 points in the elite Code of Points, if she managed to add just a single twist to it, she would be doing the Cheng vault, worth 5.6, which means that she could perform the Cheng instead of the double-twisting Yurchenko in the all around, gaining an extra 0.6 points and, with the Cheng, she could compete for gold in vault event finals, as she would be doing the same 2 vaults as the current vault world and Olympic champions (Jade Carey & Rebeca Andrade) did at the last world championships.

As Suni mentioned in a recent interview, she will finish the NCAA season and go straight into the US Classic competition on August 4, or, since many gymnasts use the US Classic as a warm-up, competition, not doing their full difficulty until the US Championships, we might have to wait a few more weeks for that.