Ilia Malinin of the United States performs a back flip during his routine in the Figure Skating, Team Event, Men's Single Skating - Short Program routine at the Milano Ice Skating Arena at the Milano ...

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Malinin hadn't lost a competition in over two years. On Friday at the Olympics, that all came falling down. Andy Cheung / Getty Images DOBBIACO, Italy — Ilia Malinin had been unbeatable for more than ...

"Quad God" Ilia Malinin doesn't need the most jaw-dropping move in his program to win—he does it anyway. The Wall Street Journal reports that the 21-year-old American, already rewriting figure skating ...

This story was updated to add new information. Ilia Malinin successfully landed a risky one-foot backflip – a back-somersault landing on a single skate blade – in the men’s free skate of the team ...

This story originally ran on TODAY.com on Feb. 18, 2022, and has been updated. Decades before the backflipping "Quad God" Ilia Malinin took the Milan Cortina Olympics by storm, French figure skater ...

Tennis superstar Novak Djokovic jumped out of his seat. He put both hands on his head. His mouth hung open in disbelief. Ilia Malinin leaves even the greatest athletes of all time in awe. While ...

Everyone knew it was coming. But yet when it happened — when American figure skater Ilia Malinin effortlessly landed the first backflip at the Winter Games since 1998 — the crowd’s loud cheers rivaled ...