Ilia Malinin’s backflip has been openly embraced, but it was received differently decades ago when Surya Bonaly performed the move at the 1998 Games.

Surya Bonaly successfully landed a backflip on one blade during the 1998 Winter Olympics despite knowing the move was banned. Surya Bonaly, the groundbreaking French figure skater long associated with ...

A fully validated quad at a women’s skating event didn’t happen until 2002 when Miki Ando of Japan successfully executed a quadruple salchow at the Junior Grand Prix Final. Ando tried to land the ...

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

From Terry Kubicka and Surya Bonaly to Ilia Malinin, the banned figure skating backflip is finally back on Olympic ice — and is still stirring controversy.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Beloved French figure skater Surya Bonaly revealed that her home was robbed of her medals. Bonaly, 51, who broke boundaries with ...

On Tuesday night, figure skater Ilia Malinin thrilled the crowd and judges with a flawless, impossibly challenging short program that included a much-ballyhooed backflip on the ice. The 21-year-old is ...

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

Surya Bonaly made history as the first female figure skater to nail an illegal backflip at the Nagano 1998 Olympics! Read on ...

U.S. figure skater and gold-medal favorite Ilia Malinin stunned fans when he delivered a backflip during the men's short program of the team competition on Saturday.

View post: Chicago Bulls at LA Clippers: Odds, Injury Updates, How to Watch and More Ilia Malinin led the U.S. to Olympic gold in figure skating by a single point. Malinin landed the first legal ...