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.

With a record-equalling six quadruple jumps and an audacious backflip, U.S. figure skater Ilia Malinin captured his second ...

The 2025 ISU World Figure Skating Championships wrapped up on Saturday, with Ilia Malinin, the Quad God, repeating as world ...

Editor's note: Ilia Malinin will take the ice in the men's long program ... Malinin, 20, is the only person in figure skating history to successfully land the quad axel in international ...

Ilia Malinin defended his world title with a free skate that earned a standing ovation inside TD Garden on Saturday night, ...

Malinin landed six quadruple jumps, including the quad Axel, on his way to claiming gold in BostonIlia Malinin, the ...

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.

The American sensation landed six quad jumps to repeat as world champion and cement his status as the Olympic favorite.

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 ...

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 ...