Malinin, the son of Uzbek skaters who moved to Virginia after competing at the 1998 Olympics, can make his own Olympic debut next February. Every American man who won the world title the year before ...

And it didn’t take a full Olympic cycle for him to be surmounted. He remembers training with Malinin when he was just doing triples. Still, it was clear then Malinin would be landing quads soon.

Malinin knows his status in figure skating comes with some pressure. Competing at a world championships on home soil, as the defending champ, in a pre-Olympic year − all of that adds to it.

Editor's note: Ilia Malinin will take the ice in the men's ... are extremely difficult − even for most Olympic skaters. And the axel is the most difficult of the jumps because of the front ...

Topping the list are Yuma Kagiyama and Shun Sato of Japan. Kagiyama is the reigning Olympic silver medalist and current ...

who won three gold medals in the four figure skating disciplines to take a wave of momentum into an Olympic year. Malinin came up short in his season-long quest to land a record seven quadruple ...

Malinin, who had a three-point cushion over Kagiyama after his short program, oozed confidence as he sauntered to the ice for his warm-up. And when former Olympic ice dancer Ben Agosto announced ...

Ilia Malinin, Alysa Liu, Madison Chock and Evan Bates, plus Mikaela Shiffrin will appear on the TODAY Show on Monday following a week of Team USA success across Winter Olympic sports. Malinin and Liu, ...

Ilia Malinin was standing in the baggage claim area of Boston Logan International Airport when a young man politely came up ...