3-Time Olympic Figure Skater Reacts to Ilia Malinin’s Winter Games Backflip

Ilia Malinin stunned the 2026 Winter Olympic crowd with a gold‑winning skate alongside performing the first legal backflip in figure skating in 50 years.

Legend Behind Ilia Malinin's Backflip Responds to Gold Medalist Stealing American Hearts at Milan

Ilia Malinin is a showman. Even before his free skate debacle and the controversy that followed, Malinin dazzled everyone with beautiful performances at the team event.

Meet the woman who broke the ice for the Quad God's Olympic backflip

French champion Surya Bonaly backflipped on Olympic ice years before Ilia Malinin was even born, and it brought her ...
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‘No One Else Could Do It’: Ice Skater Surya Bonaly Hits Back as Ilia Malinin Gets Olympic Glory — and the Medal — for What Derailed Her Career

Witness the controversial twist in figure skating history as Surya Bonaly reacts to an Olympic flip that once derailed her career.

Backflips to 'penisgate'. See wildest Winter Olympics stories, so far.

While the sporting action in Milan Cortina dominates the headlines, there have been some off-field moments that have caught the public's attention.
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History of backflips in Olympic figure skating: Why Ilia Malinin's gravity-defying stunts are controversial

Ilia Malinin is one of three figure skaters to pull off a backflip in Olympic competition.

Who is Ilia Malinin, the back-flipping 'Quad God' figure skater whose catastrophic final skate was the biggest shock of the Winter Olympics?

Malinin is the son of two Russian-born Olympic figure skaters, Tatiana Malinina and Roman Skorniakov, who competed for ...

Backflip on the podium, breakthrough on the snow, as Ben Ogden hails new generation of US skiers

Ben Ogden hopes his Olympic silver medal — and celebratory backflip — will spark a new era for American cross-country skiing. The 25-year-old Ogden finished 0.8 seconds behind Norwegian ...
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Ilia Malinin's Olympic backflip made history. But he's not the first to do it

Want more Olympics updates? Subscribe here to get our newsletter, Rachel Goes to the Games, delivered to your inbox for a behind-the-scenes look at the 2026 Milan Cortina Winter Olympics. MILAN — Ilia ...