Ilia Malinin defended his world title with a strong performance that included six quadruple jumps at TD Garden. After his routine, he expressed disappointment in not landing all seven jumps, a personal standard he aims to meet. Despite a clean quad flip and landing the challenging quad Axel, a mistake on his quad Lutz prevented a flawless performance. His score of 318.56 points secured a significant victory over silver medallist Mikhail Shaidorov. Although he won decisively, Malinin’s ambition for perfection remains his driving force as he trains for future competitions.
"It's still the one thing I want to accomplish—whether before the Olympics or sometime in my career—just to land them all and really maximize my technical ability."
"The difficulty of Malinin's technical ceiling is so far above the rest of the field that he can essentially win on difficulty, with enough margin for error to absorb all but the most catastrophic mistakes and still dominate."
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