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.

Ilia Malinin, Madison Chock and Evan Bates all defended their titles on the last day of the 2025 world figure skating ...

Ilia Malinin won his second consecutive World Figure Skating Championship men's title in front of a home crowd in Boston Saturday night. With his victory, he becomes the favorite to win gold at the ...

BOSTON — Ilia Malinin's top rival said this week that he's starting to think the self-proclaimed "Quad God" is invincible ... landing six quads during his free skate before laying in the middle of the ...

The 2025 ISU World Figure Skating Championships wrapped up on Saturday, with Ilia Malinin, the Quad God, repeating as world champion in the men’s free skate at ... In Ice Dance, the United ...

It was an attempt to break his own record for quads in a free skate. But he didn’t do it. “This challenge I’ve given myself is a pretty decent challenge,” he said of his seven-quad ...

He continued a skate worthy of his “Quad God” moniker by landing a quadruple ... he admitted that he “just couldn’t get into the ice.” He fell to 22nd place, and it was Brown’s finish ...

Silver medallist Shaidorov was third in the standings ahead of the free skate ... with a triple Axel-Euler-quad Salchow combination before collapsing to the ice in joy. "I can’t believe it ...

So what's the big deal with the quad axel, exactly ... in which the skater uses the toe pick on his or her skate to elevate off the ice. The other three (salchow, loop and axel) are edge jumps.

Malinin, 20, was the last person to take the ice at TD Garden on Saturday for his free skate and landed six quadruple ... something that only he has done before: Quad flip, quad axel, quad lutz ...