Having landed three quad axels since September and having medaled in all five of his events this season, winning three of them, Ilia Malinin is the overwhelming favorite to win this weekend’s U.S. championships in San Jose.
Now, having landed three quad axels since September and having medaled in all five of his events this season, winning three of them, he is the overwhelming favorite to win this weekend’s U.S. championships in San Jose.All legs and arms at 5-foot-6, Malinin is so thin that he almost disappears when he spins off the ice.
Even after recently noticing the quadgod handle had been abandoned and was available, he opted to keep quadg0d. He has come to like the zero.Though Malinin jumps big, his life has been small, mostly confined to the Virginia suburbs of Washington, D.C. He was coached by his parents, Roman Skorniakov and Tatiana Malinina, Soviet-born two-time Olympic skaters from Uzbekistan who coached each other in the early 2000s.
Just a few skaters had dared to try the jump, which is really a kind of quad and a half because the skater spins forward into the jump, causing him to make an extra half-turn in the air. In Beijing, Yuzuru Hanyu, Japan’s beloved skating star, attempted a quad axel during his free skate but couldn’t complete the rotations.Malinin says he was nervous to attempt it at his first event last fall, the U.S. International Figure Skating Classic in Lake Placid, N.Y.
“Sometimes we want to do too much and [the skater] will break down and the building is collapsed,” he says. “It’s [a] very sensitive [balance].”
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