The hardest jump in figure skating, plus four more quads packed into a dynamic free skate Saturday night, lifted Ilia Malinin to the top step of the podium.
Ilia Malinin wasn’t sure whether he would unveil his quad axel, the hardest jump in figure skating that only he had landed in competition, after a fourth-place short program left him playing catchup at Skate America.
Not only did he try it, the 17-year-old American phenom landed it nearly perfectly.
Malinin’s brilliant quad axel, along with four more quads packed into a dynamic free skate Saturday night, was enough to lift him past Kao Miura and
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