Surya Bonaly, who was once penalized for performing a backflip in the Winter Olympics, is now praising USA’s Ilia Malinin’s backflip to win gold.

U.S. figure skating phenom Ilia Malinin did a backflip in his Olympic debut, and another the next day. The controversial move ...

French champion Surya Bonaly backflipped on Olympic ice years before Ilia Malinin was even born, and it brought her ...

Ilia Malinin, the U.S. figure skater nicknamed the “Quad God,” became the first person to legally land a backflip on one ...

MILAN (AP) — Ilia Malinin, the U.S. figure skater nicknamed the “Quad God,” became the first person to legally land a backflip on one skate in the Olympics — although one trailblazing woman pulled it ...

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.

MILAN (AP) — Ilia Malinin silenced any doubters of the self-styled “Quad God” on Tuesday night, when the American wunderkind ...

This is the first Olympics to feature backflips in over 25 years.

American figure skater Ilia Malinin was the first to do a legal backflip in almost half a century at the Olympics. But he wasn't the first to do it on Olympic ice.