Defending champ US takes lead into final day of team figure skating at the Milano Cortina Olympics

MILAN (AP) — Ilia Malinin's quest for Olympic figure skating gold might not be so easy after all. Same goes for his American team. Yuma Kagiyama landed a pair of near-perfect quads, one in combination with a triple toe loop,

Ilia Malinin Stunningly Misses Podium After Error-Laden Skate in Men’s Olympic Final

The Quad God failed to medal at the Milan Cortina Games.

Who is Ilia Malinin, the back-flipping 'Quad God' figure skater whose catastrophic final skate was the biggest shock of the Winter Olympics?

Malinin is the son of two Russian-born Olympic figure skaters, Tatiana Malinina and Roman Skorniakov, who competed for Uzbekistan at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan, and the 2002 Olympics in Salt Lake City. They later moved to Virginia, where Ilia was born in 2004. He started skating at age 6.

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Ilia Malinin's quest for Olympic figure skating gold might not be so easy after all. Same goes for his American team. Yuma Kagiyama landed a pair of near-perfect quads, one in combination with a triple toe loop,

Ilia Malinin Had Saddest Reaction After Failing to Medal in Men’s Singles Competition

Ilia Malinin fell short of an individual medal during the men’s singles competition at the Milan Cortina Olympics.