What makes 'Quad God' Ilia Malinin so good at landing the hardest jump in figure skating?
U.S. figure skater Ilia Malinin is no stranger to making history on the ice. The 21-year-old, who hails from Virginia, underlined his gold medal-clinching free skate on Sunday night with a backflip that he landed on one blade — also known as “the Bonaly flip,” named after French skater Surya Bonaly, who was the first to pull off the move at the 1998 Nagano Games, when it was still banned.


