The 2026 Winter Olympics is fully underway in Italy, and it's once again time for figure skating to take center stage. One of the biggest stars on this year's U.S. team is Ilia Malinin, nicknamed the ...

MILAN — Ilia Malinin keeps teasing fans at the Milan Cortina Olympics by submitting program plans that have the American figure skating star attempting the quad axel, a 4 1/2-revolution jump so ...

All eyes are on American Ilia Malinin as men's figure skating gets underway at the 2026 Olympics. The 21-year-old first-time Olympian is already making waves for groundbreaking achievements in figure ...

Malinin's technical prowess includes an historic quadruple Axel Kagiyama and Siao Him Fa among challengers for podium Malinin had hinted at attempting quintuple jump at Olympics MILAN, Feb 8 (Reuters) ...

Only one skater in history has landed the quad axel in competition. Ilia Malinin, a 21-year-old American, first executed this difficult and seemingly impossible jump two and half years ago and has ...

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Ilia Malinin has two new skating programs for the 2026 Olympic season, titled, "The Lost Crown," and "A Voice." ...

This story was updated to add new information. Ilia Malinin successfully landed a risky one-foot backflip – a back-somersault landing on a single skate blade – in the men’s free skate of the team ...

Japanese figure skating star Yuzuru Hanyu is to retire, the two-time Olympic gold medalist announced on Tuesday. Winning the gold medal at the Winter Olympics in Sochi in 2014 and PyeongChang in 2018, ...

MILAN, Metropolitan City of Milan — Ilia Malinin already has a gold medal in the team event at the 2026 Winter Olympics, and now he has the chance to make Olympic history. The U.S. skater known as the ...

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