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'Bonaly flip': Olympic skating backflip sparks tributes to French trailblazer




US figure skater Ilia Malinin’s gold-medal-clinching backflip at the Winter Olympics in Milan-Cortina has prompted a flurry of tributes to France’s Surya Bonaly, who became the first skater to land the daring flip on one skate at the Nagano Games almost three decades ago – when the move was still forbidden.



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