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Will American 'Quad God' Ilia Malinin Try Hardest Quad of All in His Last Skate at the Olympics?
MILAN (AP) -- Ilia Malinin keeps teasing fans at the Milan Cortina Olympics by submitting program plans that have the American figure skating star attempting the quad axel, a 4 1/2-revolution jump so difficult nobody but him has ever landed it in competition.
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Ilia Malinin's Quad Axel Positions Him as 2026 Olympics Gold Favorite
Only one skater in history has landed the quad axel in competition. Ilia Malinin, a 20-year-old American, first executed this difficult and seemingly impossible jump two and half years ago and has landed it in front of judges more than a dozen times since.
