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.

In the episode, fellow figure skating legend Brian Boitano said, "Surya was never going to be controlled."

US Olympic figure skater Ilia Malinin’s parents, Tatiana Malinina and Roman Skorniakov, are former athletes of the sport, having both competed at the 1998 Nagano Winter Olympics and 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Olympics.

MILAN (AP) — 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 move was still forbidden.

That red poor-boy cap from the 1998 Nagano Games you wore in elementary school? It’s now practically a fashion collectible. There’s even an official Olympic Heritage Collection offering limited re-issues of vintage T-shirts and memorabilia.

Two Olympic judges were banned after one proposed a plan to rig the winners of the figure-skating event of the 1998 Winter Olympic Games. The 2026 Winter Olympic Games are currently underway across Milan and Cortina d'Ampezzo,