Russian skater, playing for the United States, almost jumped a quadruple Axel
The winner of the recent junior world championship, 17-year-old American figure skater Ilya Malinin, will surely be cooler than Nathan Chen and Yuzuru Hanyu. Just now, he almost completed a quadruple Axel in training, allowing a step-out on landing. MK-Sport talks about the features of a young skater with Russian roots.
17 year old Ilya Malinina call a replacement Nathan Chen in figure skating. At the last US Championships, he took second place, but the federation decided otherwise.
At the recent World Championships in Montpellier, Russian skaters were no longer allowed, where Ilya Malinin took ninth place, but began to take ninth place, but he scored more than 100 points from one short program – even the bronze medalist of the tournament could not take so many in a short time, another American Vincent Zhou.
Less than a month later, Ilya won the junior world championship in Tallinn, and he already recognized himself as the “god of quads”. And his coach Rafael Harutyunyan the admissibility that in the future Malinin will be able to perform quintuples.
“If Ilya continues to work on jumps, as he worked before, he will definitely jump with a five. Although, in theory, he should jump on the quadruple axel even earlier. After that, making a five-jump will no longer seem extremely vulnerable.”, Harutyunyan said in an interview with RT.
Probably, the quadruple axel Malinin will soon jump. A training video appeared on his social network, where he practically delayed his jump, landing with a step out.
At the meetings, no one has yet performed a clean quad-axel. Very close to the fact that the Japanese genius came up in the last pre-Olympic class Yuzuru Hanyu, landing a jump at the Japanese Championships, which was downgraded to a triple due to underrotation. At the Olympics, the Japanese finished with him, finishing the conference in fourth place.
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