American Malinin Earns Olympic Redemption with World Gold
Ilia Malinin won gold by more than 22 points with a five-quad program, seeking redemption after missing the Olympic podium despite being a favorite.
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Ilia Malinin Is Back
Chances are you—and certainly not I—did not need redemption at 21. At that age, I was in college, and my world mostly revolved around working at the student-run newspaper, getting "clips," doing my best to line up another summer internship, hanging out with my friends, and also finding time to do all my classwork. When I did screw up, which of course I did because I was 21, invariably someone would tell me not to worry about it too much. I had t…
Malinin earns Olympic redemption with gold
American Ilia Malinin returned to the pinnacle of his sport as he skated to a third world title on Saturday and shrugged off the shock of an eighth-place finish at last month's Olympics. Laurence Fournier Beaudry and Guillaume Cizeron of France added their first world ice dance title to last month's Olympic gold to cap a dream debut season. The 21-year-old Malinin, who arrived in Prague carrying the weight of a collapse that cost him Olympic go…
The American figure skater won handily even without a quadruple axel.
The World Figure Skating Championships (WSC) were held in Prague, Czech Republic, from 25 to 29 May. In the men's singles event, American Ilya Malinin won his fourth world medal and third gold. He scored 111.29 points in the short program and 218.11 points in the free skate, for a total of 329.40 points to win the gold medal. Japan's Yuma Kagiyama, who has four Olympic silver medals, also won four silver and one bronze at the world championships…
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