"What he's doing is just legendary,"
"It will change the generation and the curve and the history and the future of our sport."
"All of us skaters, we always have a reason to skate," Malinin said, "And my reason is, I love to perform. I like to push myself to the limits and just see where I can take the sport."
Former U.S. champions and longtime fans feel nervous watching current competitions until Ilia Malinin performs. Malinin is the only skater to land a quadruple axel in international competition, first landing it at 17, and the first to execute seven quadruple jumps in a single program. He has not lost a competition since November 2023. Malinin aims to reset figure skating by attracting viewers with historic technical feats and retaining them through fearless performance quality. A Malinin victory would give the United States back-to-back Olympic men's titles for the first time since 1984 and 1988.
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