BOSTON — Ilia Malinin could attempt as many as seven quadruple jumps in his long program Saturday, as he seeks to defend his world championship title. One of them could be the famous jump that only he ...
The jumps are household names, at least in figure skating households: salchow, axel, lutz, loop, flip and toe loop. In order of difficulty, from the easiest to the hardest, they are: toe loop, salchow ...
For Olympic figure skaters, all those hours, jumps and training are boiled down to around six or seven minutes during the Winter games. Mirai Nagasu became the first ever American woman to land a ...
Ilia Malinin wasn't sure whether he would unveil his quad axel, the hardest jump in figure skating that only he had landed in competition, after a fourth-place short program left him playing catchup ...