France has had its most successful Winter Olympics yet, bringing home a record 23 medals from the 2026 Games in northern Italy. While French athletes have never topped the table overall, they have ...

Ilia Malinin stunned the 2026 Winter Olympic crowd with a gold‑winning skate alongside performing the first legal backflip in ...

Ilia Malinin is a showman. Even before his free skate debacle and the controversy that followed, Malinin dazzled everyone with beautiful performances at the team event.

A figure skating spin, above, captured with 49 photographs reveals the beauty of Isabeau Levito’s motion on ice. A downhill sequence simultaneously shows the slimmest of winning margins and the ...

French champion Surya Bonaly backflipped on Olympic ice years before Ilia Malinin was even born, and it brought her ...

American superstar and 2026 Olympic men's gold medal favorite Ilia Malinin peforms a backflip in his short program.

At the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics, the world applauded Ilia Malinin's backflip. But long before him, Surya Bonaly dared to defy gravity and the rules.

Team USA Olympian Ilia Malinin has addressed 'online hate' on Instagram days after performing an 'illegal' move that was ...

Ilia Malinin skated toward Olympic gold until his final performance unraveled the myth and revealed the human underneath.

Ilia Malinin’s backflip has been openly embraced, but it was received differently decades ago when Surya Bonaly performed the move at the 1998 Games.

American figure skater Ilia Malinin was the first to do a legal backflip in almost half a century at the Olympics. But he wasn't the first to do it on Olympic ice.