Breaking down Ilia Malinin's iconic back flip and how the favorite for gold in men's figure skating learned the move.

Team USA figure skater Ilia Malinin stunned 2026 Winter Olympics fans with an on-the-ice backflip that reignited excitement ...

Team USA figure skaters jumped, spun and backflipped their way to a gold medal in the figure skating team event at the 2026 ...

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 ...

American figure skater Ilia Malinin wowed in his Olympic debut on Saturday, Feb. 7, finishing in second during the men's short program in the team event at the 2026 Milan Winter Olympic Games. Malinin ...

MILAN (AP) — Ilia Malinin playfully threw a couple of jabs at a TV camera while skating off the ice Tuesday night, the pressure of his first Olympics having seemingly vanished following a team gold ...

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

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.

Watch Ilia Malinin execute a backflip and land on one leg during the men's free skate at the 2026 Winter Olympics team event.

The last time the Winter Olympics saw a backflip on the ice was at the 1998 Games in Nagano, performed by France’s Surya Bonaly. However, the move was illegal at this time. It had first been done in ...

Two days and 11 skaters into figure skating’s team event, the United States’ gold-medal hopes hinged on one final skater. Ilia Malinin, who at only 21 years old had already earned a world championship ...