Ilia Malinin is the only person in figure skating history to successfully land the quad axel in international competition. Here's why it's so hard.

The new star of figure skating, Ilia Malinin, put on his typically dazzling routine Thursday at the world championships in ...

Malinin looked all but invincible in Boston as he defended his world championship with ease, but he knows there’s room for ...

The defending world champion said he was more unsettled than usual, but it didn't stop him from nailing his elements in the ...

The Fairfax, Va., native changed his jump layout on the fly, landing six quadruple jumps, including the Axel, in the free ...

U.S. figure skater Ilia Malinin prepares for the world championships, contemplating the risk of performing seven quadruple ...

BOSTON — Ilia Malinin's top rival said this week that ... Over the span of 4 minutes, 13 seconds, Malinin landed a quad flip, quad axel, quad lutz, quad loop, quad toe loop and quad salchow ...

“Let’s get this party started!” That was Ilia Malinin’s message to the ticketholders on the Hub Vision screen before he took ...

This means the quad axel actually consists of 4.5 rotations, rather than four. No skater has ever landed a quintuple jump. Tara Lipinski takes a closer look at Ilia Malinin’s quad axel by the ...