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 ...

The 2018 Winter Games in Pyeongchang were historic for American figure skating. Mirai Nagasu became the first woman on Team USA to ever land a triple axel at the Olympics, and we were beyond impressed ...

Ilia Malinin, the US 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 off when the ...

Unless you're one of the rare souls who watches the once-yearly Stars on Ice broadcasts, you probably have never seen a figure skater perform a backflip. There's a good reason for that: the move has ...

The Olympian's thin, silver-edged skates sliced up into the air in a rare, sensational backflip — one leg, then the other — landing on a single skate a split second later that shaved back into the ice ...

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 ...

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