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Editor's note: Ilia Malinin will take the ice in the men's long program Saturday. Follow along here to catch today's action. BOSTON — Ilia Malinin could attempt as many as seven quadruple jumps ...
To complete a quad jump, skaters must have a rotation speed around 350 rpm. Nathan Chen has a rotation speed near 440 rotations per minute. Male skaters are traveling an average of 20 mph as they ...
The U.S. figure skater won his second ... The self-proclaimed "Quad God" — the first skater to ever land a quadruple Axel jump — also exclusively teased a bit of his strategy heading into ...
Japanese figure skater ... plans to attempt a quad axel in the lead up to the Beijing Games. The quad axel is practically the Holy Grail of ice skating, being the only quad jump that had never ...
"I want to make it a good challenge for next season," Kagiyama said Wednesday of the planned quad flip. The 21-year-old son of former Olympic figure skater Masakazu Kagiyama has been attempting to ...
She is coaching Russian figure skaters for the third consecutive ... likely to land quads at the 2022 Winter Games. The quad, a four-revolution jump, was long thought to be impossible for women ...
“At the Beijing Olympics, I am of course definitely planning to go for the win, including the 4A,” Hanyu said, using the shorthand for the quad ... of the six figure skating jumps not to ...
TWO months ago, after easily winning his third consecutive US Figure Skating ... For years, the top skaters in the world could only dream of landing the quad axel, a jump made harder by its ...
BOSTON — Ilia Malinin could attempt as many as seven quadruple jumps in his long program Saturday, as he seeks to defend his world championship title. One of them could be the famous jump that ...