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Terry Kubicka from the U.S. was the first figure skater to successfully execute a legal backflip at the Olympics, during the 1976 Winter Olympics. [3] Kubicka got the idea of using the backflip in his skating from Evy Scotvold, his coach, who wanted to help advance athleticism in figure skating and to go beyond the triple jumps that were the most difficult elements in the sport at the time.
While not a medal winner, France's injured Surya Bonaly, who placed 10th, completed an (illegal) backflip during her long program, making her the fourth person and only woman to ever land a backflip in competition. She is the only person to land on one foot and to do a split mid-air (now colloquially referred to as a 'Bonaly').
Surya Varuna Claudine Bonaly was born in Nice, France, on 15 December 1973. [4] Her birth name was Claudine; when she was adopted out of an orphanage at the age of eight months by Suzanne Bonaly, a physical education teacher in Nice, and Georges Bonaly, a draftsman who worked for the French government, she was named after the Hindu deities Surya and Varuna.
Ilia Malinin of the United States competes during the men's short program at the Skate America figure skating event in Allen, Texas, Saturday, Oct. 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez) ASSOCIATED PRESS
He became known for his comedic skating programs. [citation needed] Hollander announced his retirement from competition by executing a backflip, which is an illegal element in figure skating. [2] Hollander coaches figure skating in Maryland. [3] On October 17, 2015, he married a skating coach, Emily Chase, in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. [4]
Four days after he won his third consecutive U.S. figure skating title, Ilia Malinin normally would have put in four to six hours on the ice back at his home rink in Reston, Virginia.
During his long program at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships in 1991, Mattis protested what he thought was underscoring from the judges by executing a backflip, an illegal movement in national and international competitions. Despite landing 6 clean triple jumps in the program, the judges took significant deductions for the backflip ...
Other well-represented crimes among illegal immigrants known to be living in the US include sexual assault — with 523 convicted or suspected rapists in ICE custody and 20,061 not — and assault ...