Meet the 'Quad God.' Why Olympic star Ilia Malinin might revolutionize figure skating.
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MILAN — The legends assemble. Olympic champions, world champions — the icons of U.S. figure skating — sit together for major competitions and watch the current generation of skaters carry the sport to new heights. Kristi Yamaguchi, Michelle Kwan, Scott Hamilton, Dorothy Hamill and Brian Boitano to name a few, and they, just like the thousands of fans who haven't competed under the championship spotlight, get nervous too. That is, until Ilia Malinin skates. "What he's doing is just legendary," said Boitano, the 1988 Olympic champion. "It will change the generation and the curve and the history and the future of our sport." Malinin is the only person to land a quadruple axel in international...