Just a handful of skaters have attempted a quadruple axel in competition. Malinin, a gold medal favorite at the Milan-Cortina Olympics, is the only skater who has landed one.

For years, elite figure skaters were on a quest to nail the most difficult jump in their sport: the quadruple axel, which requires someone to spin four and a half times in the air in less than one ...

America will be glued to the TV when 21-year-old sensation Ilia Malinin takes the ice at the Winter Olympics in Italy as he attempts to win the only prize missing from his résumé: Olympic gold “No ...