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Fred Richard, known for leading Team USA to the bronze medal at the 2024 Paris Olympics, set the Guinness World Record for most standing backflips completed in 24 hours late Friday night.
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Caroline Price, Forbes.com, 3 May 2025
The latter gave us a second consecutive weekend with a Brazilian backflip.
—Emily Olsen, New York Times, 22 Apr. 2025
Often, these videos include acrobatic backflips or show the novelty of eating and drinking in microgravity.
—ArsTechnica, 22 Apr. 2025
The copyright infringement joke: Full points for the race and the backflip!
—Ron Estes, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Mar. 2025
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Caroline Price, Forbes.com, 3 May 2025
The latter gave us a second consecutive weekend with a Brazilian backflip.
—Emily Olsen, New York Times, 22 Apr. 2025
Often, these videos include acrobatic backflips or show the novelty of eating and drinking in microgravity.
—ArsTechnica, 22 Apr. 2025
The copyright infringement joke: Full points for the race and the backflip!
—Ron Estes, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Mar. 2025
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“Backflip.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/backflip. Accessed 16 May. 2025.
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backflip
noun
back·flip
-ˌflip 
: a backward somersault especially in the air
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