{"id":16165,"date":"2025-03-29T13:28:23","date_gmt":"2025-03-29T13:28:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/ilia-malinin-is-poised-to-win-world-figure-skating-championships-on-saturday\/"},"modified":"2025-03-29T13:28:23","modified_gmt":"2025-03-29T13:28:23","slug":"ilia-malinin-is-poised-to-win-world-figure-skating-championships-on-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/ilia-malinin-is-poised-to-win-world-figure-skating-championships-on-saturday\/","title":{"rendered":"Ilia Malinin Is Poised to Win World Figure Skating Championships on Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Two months ago, after easily winning his third straight U.S. Figure Skating national title, Ilia Malinin showed up at his rink to train for the world championships, yet could not bring himself to skate for even a second.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Malinin, the overwhelming gold medal favorite for next year\u2019s Olympics in Italy, had laced up his skates, looked around, and felt an emptiness that stopped him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">That week, 28 people involved in skating had died when an Army helicopter <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2025\/01\/30\/us\/washington-dc-plane-crash-helicopter-maps-photos.html\" title=\"\">collided<\/a> with a passenger jet over the Potomac River, killing all <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2025\/02\/03\/us\/dc-plane-crash-victims.html\" title=\"\">67 passengers<\/a>. Among them were young skaters, including three from the Washington Figure Skating Club, Malinin\u2019s club, and others who at times would use the rink in Reston, Va., where he trains.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">A coach, a skater and his father, and a whole family \u2014 two young sisters and their parents \u2014 from that club died, and Malinin, who is 20, was so brokenhearted in the weeks afterward that he could not even bear to say their names, he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cSkating usually helps me handle hard things going on in my life, but it was just too emotional to be there,\u201d Malinin said in an interview with The New York Times the first week of March. \u201cI tried to have a productive day of skating. But I just couldn\u2019t take my mind to another place. I just couldn\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">When he returned to the rink several days later, he said, he redoubled his efforts to be the best men\u2019s singles skater in the world, one bound for stardom at the Olympics nearly 10 months from now.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">He said he focused on fine-tuning his programs and immersed himself in them, determined to dedicate his performances at the World Figure Skating Championships this week to the people who died. His performances should be worthy of their memory, he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The result was most likely Malinin\u2019s best performance ever, one by a dynamic skater who is single-handedly lifting the sport into another stratosphere with his technical skills and his ability to connect with a new, younger audience.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-3\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">As a teenager, Malinin \u2014 a hoodie and jeans kind of guy \u2014 started calling himself \u201cQuad God\u201d for his ability to execute quadruple jumps, the hardest in skating. But now his unique performances are just as memorable: With his flowing movements and unique body shapes, his routines could double as modern dances. The music he often chooses for them is the opposite of the long-used classical pieces the sport has been known for. He performs to music he likes to listen to, he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">On Thursday, in his short program at the world championships in Boston, that music was the song \u201cRunning\u201d by the rapper NF. He sang along to it as if he were alone in his car, and the crowd could feel the emotion as he moved masterfully, in synchronicity with the song\u2019s every note.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">His thick, tousled blond hair became a golden blur as he shunned gravity and went airborne to perform jump after jump, including two quads. The design of his long-sleeved outfit, indigo patterned with thick gray diagonal stripes, made it look as if the top fabric had been torn away to reveal another color. From afar, it appeared ripped at one shoulder \u2014 the clothes of someone who has survived a fight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Along with the conventional jumps, Malinin included a move he calls the Raspberry Twist, which is a twisting version of a butterfly jump during which he is nearly parallel to the ice. He christened the move for his last name: In Russian, \u201cmalina\u201d means raspberry. When he landed it in the middle of his step sequence, after all of his jumps had been done, the crowd erupted in a loud, sustained roar, long before his program ended, surprising him.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-4\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cOnce the music started playing and I got into my starting position, I almost fell into the, you know, flow state, and it really just took me from there,\u201d Malinin said after logging 110.41 points, one of the highest short program scores ever at an international competition, and beating Japan\u2019s Yuma Kagiyama by 3.32 points.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-5\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Now Malinin, from Vienna, Va., is the overwhelming favorite to win Saturday\u2019s free skate and his second consecutive world championship. Kagiyama, the Olympic silver medalist at the 2022 Beijing Games, said he is in awe of Malinin\u2019s transformation from a skater largely known for the strength, speed and timing required to land impeccable quads to one with artistry nearly as untouchable.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cI\u2019m starting to think he\u2019s invincible,\u201d Kagiyama said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Adam Rippon, a bronze medalist at the 2018 Olympics, said that Malinin\u2019s athleticism, especially his quad jumps, tends to overshadow his natural talent as a performer, and that\u2019s a shame.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cIt\u2019s really hard to be unafraid and expose your emotions like that, but I think he does that really well, and he does that unabashedly, almost to the point where he\u2019s reckless,\u201d Rippon said. \u201cI think the quads are amazing, but what I really like about his skating is that he pushes himself to the absolute ends in his brilliant, brilliant programs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Spectators can expect more of that brilliance during Malinin\u2019s free skate on Saturday. A bonus is that he might try to perform seven quads \u2014 a record, if he lands them \u2014 if he\u2019s feeling good in warm-ups, he said. And maybe even a backflip. His song will be \u201cI\u2019m Not a Vampire (Revamped)\u201d by the rock band Falling in Reverse.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-6\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">On paper, he has already won. Like Simone Biles in gymnastics, the base scores of his technical elements are so high that it would be hard for anyone to surpass him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Malinin showed that at nationals in January, when he won by nearly 47 points, a colossal win in a sport in which margins of victory are often measured in single digits, or even tenths. He landed six quads, which each require a mind-boggling four-and-a-half revolutions. No other skaters have landed as many in one program.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">For years, the top skaters in the world could only dream of landing a quad axel, a jump made harder by its forward-facing entry. Malinin, now a student at George Mason University, landed it at an international event when he was 17.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cAt his age and especially at his level of purity of technique and everything else he brings, not only do I think no one can beat him, but I don\u2019t think that there\u2019s a way to understand what his ceiling is,\u201d Scott Hamilton, the 1984 Olympic gold medalist and television skating analyst, said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-7\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cWhat more could Ilia do?\u201d Hamilton added. \u201cAnything he wants. Nothing is impossible for a skater with that kind of natural talent.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Malinin said his practices before worlds were easy. The jumps. The spins. The movements to the music. It all felt so right, he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Yet at the rink, there were times when he thought about the skaters who died, he admitted, forcing him to pause. His parents \u2014 Tatyana Malinina and Roman Skornyakov, who skated for Uzbekistan at past Olympics \u2014 coach him and helped him regroup, he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Those skaters he knew were not there anymore, gliding by or standing back, wide-eyed, to watch him and learn from him, or to train next to him, and that \u201creally upsets me,\u201d Malinin said. Honoring them through his performances has helped him move forward.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cI\u2019m also really glad that I was able to get through this,\u201d he said, \u201cand really just have this mind-set of, you know, skating for them now.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a 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