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 ...

Figure skating fans of the '90s had a front row seat to greatness. Some (especially little Black girls) knew there was something special happening with Surya Bonaly's gravity-defying backflips — ...

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 ...

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.

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

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 ...

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 ...