Ilia Malinin wins U.S. figure skating national title with quadruple Axel miss
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on January 30, 2023
One year ago, Ilia Malinin came to the U.S. Championships as, largely, a 17-year-old unknown. He finished second to Nathan Chen in 2022 and was left off the three-man Olympic team due to his inexperience, a committee decision that lit a fire in him.
After the biggest year of change in U.S. figure skating in three decades, Malinin came to this week’s nationals in San . . .
