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Winter Olympics: Ilia Malinin is ready to tell his story
Ilia Malinin debuts 'A Voice,' a personal free skate blending his own recorded voice with music, aiming to show vulnerability alongside his technical dominance, choreographed by Shae-Lynn Bourne.
- Ilia Malinin today completed a run-through of his free skate A Voice, which embeds his spoken words in the soundtrack, prompting Shae-Lynn Bourne to say she felt goosebumps watching it.
- Malinin says he wanted to redefine himself through the program, collaborating with Shae-Lynn Bourne, choreographer, and Bohdan Turok, director-producer, who guided and recorded his voice.
- At last month's Grand Prix final, Ilia Malinin scored 238.24 to shatter his free-skate world record and landed seven clean quadruple jumps, owning the top three free skate scores ever.
- Malinin plans to use Milano Ice Skating Arena as his launch pad and is preparing for the Olympic Games, going for that gold with solid training and injury-prevention plans.
- His hybrid of theatre and extreme technique, including on-ice back flips after International Skating Union rule changes, positions Ilia Malinin to shape men's figure skating across future Olympic cycles.
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Winter Olympics: Ilia Malinin is ready to tell his story
IRVINE, California — The allure of figure skating, what captivates millions who wouldn’t know Axel Paulsen from Ulrich Salchow, why it transcends the Olympic Games every four years, is its ability to tell a story. More than any other sport, there is a cinematic quality to skating. It even comes with a soundtrack. “That’s what makes skating unique to, let’s say, hockey, or something that’s based on a clock,” said Shae-Lynn Bourne, a former world …
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