Ilia Malinin won Olympic gold for Team USA while continuing a family legacy, as his parents also competed at the Winter Olympics.

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 ...

He burst onto the scene shortly after he was controversially left off the team for the Beijing Games, when U.S. Figure Skating opted for the more experienced Jason Brown.