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Malinin Made History With His Olympic Backflip

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Ilia Malinin's Olympic backflip made history. But he's not the first to do it

Ilia Malinin lands a backflip in his free skate in the team event on Sunday.

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Why Ilia Malinin's backflip is allowed, not illegal, but still worth no points in Olympic figure skating

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Ilia Malinin pulls off first legal Olympics backflip in 50 years — but still doesn’t finish in first

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Malinin made history with his Olympic backflip, but some say the glory was owed to a Black skater

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 off when the ...

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Discover Ilia Malinin's Journey: From Olympic Gold to His Life Off the Ice

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Ilia Malinin proves his dominance in Olympic figure skating short program

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Ilia Malinin backflips into men’s singles lead after huge Olympic short portion performance

The 21-year-old known as the Quad God lived up to the nickname on two of his three jumps, executing a quad flip and a quad lutz.

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Winter Olympics today: Ilia Malinin shines, US women's hockey dominates

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Watch Ilia Malinin’s gravity-defying backflip during Olympic short program run

The Complicated And Controversial History Of Figure Skating’s Backflip

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.

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The history of figure skating’s most controversial trick — the backflip

This is the first Olympics to feature backflips in over 25 years.