responsibility of trying keep gymnasts safe. The D-scores for skills deemed unnecessarily risky have been set to a somewhat lower value than they truly deserve in order to discourage gymnasts who are not technically or physically ready from attempting them. The Produnova on vault has been long considered the most difficult vault ever to be successfully completed by women. Only five women have ever successfully/officially landed the skill and earn a score in competition, and its originator, Elena Produnova of Russia, the only woman who managed to first stick the vault on landing at the 1999 University Games in Moscow when it was first unveiled to the world—the vault was later officially verified for its successful completion by the FIG at the 1999 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships. However, its difficulty value has been steadily decreasing over the years even though still no additional women have been able to land the skill safely or moreover officially attempted the skill in competition for many years now. This vault at one time had a D-score of 7.1, then to 7.0, and later to just 6.4 now, which is now equal to the D-score of the Biles on vault—technically a Yurchenko half twist onto vaulting platform and then into a double twist off it after (or again a “½ on–2/1 off” in practice). Even with the same D-score, many still see the Produnova as being underscored again due to the FIG openly acknowledging deliberately scoring lower of certain proportionately riskier skills such as this one in order to discourage gymnasts selecting and/or training such skills for competition. Many of the skills in the Table of Elements are named after gymnasts. An original element is named after an athlete when he or she is the first person to successfully perform it at an official FIG event, such as a World Championships, an Olympics, or a FIG World Cup. Gymnasts and their coaches must submit their original skill to the FIG before the meet for evaluation and possible inclusion in the Table of Elements. Judging and score tabulation Two panels of judges evaluate each performance. One evaluates the difficulty and other evaluates execution. The final mark is the combined total of these two scores. The D-score (or difficulty score) indicates the difficulty of the exercise on 3 criteria: Difficulty Value (DV): The difficulty value of a routine is the combined total of the eight elements with