Figure skater Ekaterina Tsipukhina said that she admires Russian-American figure skater Ilya Malinin. “Match TV”.
“Ilya is a phenomenon in figure skating. I don’t quite understand how he does this. No one had ever done a quadruple axel before him. Just admiration,” Tsipukhina said.
In September 2022, 19-year-old Malinin cleanly performed the quadruple axel in the free program for the first time in history at the US International Classic tournament in Lake Placid (New York, USA). He was included in the Guinness Book of Records for the performance of this element.
At the end of February 2022, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) appealed to international sports federations, recommending that domestic and Belarusian athletes not be allowed to participate in any competitions. After the 2022 Beijing Olympics, Russian figure skaters could not participate in international competitions due to penalties.
Previously Malinin to win Grand Prix final.