Malinin made history with Olympic backflip
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From Terry Kubicka and Surya Bonaly to Ilia Malinin, the banned figure skating backflip is finally back on Olympic ice — and is still stirring controversy.
That red poor-boy cap from the 1998 Nagano Games you wore in elementary school? It’s now practically a fashion collectible. There’s even an official Olympic Heritage Collection offering limited re-issues of vintage T-shirts and memorabilia.
Karel Vejmelka and Lukas Dostal hope to channel legendary goalie who defeated Canada in shootout at 1998 Winter Games in Nagano.
Two Olympic judges were banned after one proposed a plan to rig the winners of the figure-skating event of the 1998 Winter Olympic Games. The 2026 Winter Olympic Games are currently underway across Milan and Cortina d'Ampezzo,
Czech hockey still lives in the shadow of Nagano 1998. At Milano Cortina 2026, a new generation led by David Pastrňák will try to write its own story.
All of the 2026 Winter Olympics will be available to stream on Peacock, while NBC and USA will show Snowboarding on TV. If you want to watch snowboarding online, you can subscribe to Peacock or get a live TV streaming service that carries NBC and USA.
Along with Canada, Team USA is one of just two countries that have won gold in women's ice hockey since the event was added to the Olympics in 1998. The Americans won that inaugural year in Nagano, then endured four straight Canadian victories until 2018, when Team USA struck back with a dramatic overtime win to capture gold in Pyeongchang.