Skater Surya Bonaly was punished for doing the flips now making ‘Quad God’ Ilia Malinin famous: ‘Everything has changed’
Mădălin Mihai
Don’t forget who flipped first. 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 now in first place and widely favored to win the individual gold when the competition concludes Friday with the men’s long program. But, despite the attention Malinin is getting for the backflip, he’s not the first Olympian to land it. That honor goes to France’s
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