9/15/2022, 9:39:12 AM
He has previously done it in training, but now the 17-year-old figure skating talent Ilia Malinin has also set a quadruple axel during competition. The jump involves 4.5 laps in the air and Ilia Malinin is the first ever to do the jump. - In training, it's quite easy for me to know how to put it, but doing it at the competition is a completely different thing, says Malinin according to The Washington Post.
The American Ilia Malinin is one of the USA's biggest talents and was close to securing a place in the Olympics in Tokyo last winter.
The quadruple axel jump carried him to victory in the US International Figure Skating Classic on Wednesday.
- It felt really good, he says after the competition.
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