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Not so much for your music as your…not flamboyance, but exuberance, maybe, or whimsy—qualities in vanishingly short supply with our current crop of male pop stars who don’t make backflips a fixture of their live performances.
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Walden Green, Pitchfork, 6 Mar. 2026
Also performing in Sunrise is Malinin, 21, a powerhouse figure skating competitor known for daring quadruple axel and backflips on ice.
—Amanda Rosa, Miami Herald, 6 Mar. 2026
Post the performance, the humanoid shook hands with Honor CEO James Li, and also performed a clean backflip that landed flawlessly, leaving the viewers amazed, meeting a ripple of applause across the room.
—Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 2 Mar. 2026
With his athleticism and his bravado—his programs featured the world’s only quad axel and the only backflip, which always elicited a roar from the crowd despite earning him no points—Malinin looked poised not only to win but also to bring men’s figure skating into the mainstream.
—Louisa Thomas, New Yorker, 22 Feb. 2026
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Walden Green, Pitchfork, 6 Mar. 2026
Also performing in Sunrise is Malinin, 21, a powerhouse figure skating competitor known for daring quadruple axel and backflips on ice.
—Amanda Rosa, Miami Herald, 6 Mar. 2026
Post the performance, the humanoid shook hands with Honor CEO James Li, and also performed a clean backflip that landed flawlessly, leaving the viewers amazed, meeting a ripple of applause across the room.
—Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 2 Mar. 2026
With his athleticism and his bravado—his programs featured the world’s only quad axel and the only backflip, which always elicited a roar from the crowd despite earning him no points—Malinin looked poised not only to win but also to bring men’s figure skating into the mainstream.
—Louisa Thomas, New Yorker, 22 Feb. 2026
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“Backflip.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/backflip. Accessed 9 Mar. 2026.
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backflip
noun
back·flip
-ˌflip 
: a backward somersault especially in the air
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