Ilia Malinin pulls off first legal Olympics backflip in 50 years — but still doesn’t finish in first

Source: New York Post

Everyone knew it was coming. But yet when it happened — when American figure skater Ilia Malinin effortlessly landed the first backflip at the Winter Games since 1998 — the crowd’s loud cheers rivaled that of his music blaring from the Milano Ice Skating Arena speakers. How’s that for an Olympic debut? By the end of his short program, as part of the team event, Malinin was out of breath and stuck out his tongue.