The flip doesn’t add to his technical score, but it sure does rally the crowd. Malinin earned a 108.16 on the night to lead ...

The sound in Milan felt unmistakable: a crowd rising as a skater snapped into a move that once symbolized rebellion. Backflips still carry that old charge in figure skating, because the sport spent ...

With his backflips, one-handed cartwheels and quadruple-jumps galore, US figure skater Ilia Malinin's rip-roaring routines have proved a star attraction at the Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics. A third ...