Ilia Malinin plans to do a backflip at Skate America after figure skating officials made it legal for the first time in ...

Almost 50 years after banning backflips, the sport has sanctioned a trick that can be spectacular—and spectacularly risky.

who took the backflip to the ice at first by using support ropes to help guide his landing. “I was doing gymnastics and it ...

NEWS UPDATE: The backflip is now LEGAL and Ilia Malinin is COOKING for figure skating season. ( IG/ilia_quadg0d_malinin) #figureskating #iliamalinin » ...

Former Canadian ice dance champions Laurence Fournier ... finish despite the illegal move. But figure skating fans seem more divided on the backflip than you might expect. Some argue (pretty ...

American figure skater Ilia Malinin has been doing gymnastics off the ice ... backflip and all other “somersault type jumps” were removed from the restricted list by the International Skating ...

If you thought figure skating—the act of throwing yourself into the air and spinning above a sheet of ice with sharpened blades on your feet—looked like one of sport’s more reckless ...

(Graham Hughes/The Canadian Press via AP, File) American figure skater Ilia Malinin has been doing gymnastics off the ice much of his life ... in competition for its inherent danger, the backflip and ...