Ilia Malinin has won Skate Canada, extending his two-year unbeaten streak and solidifying his status as the favorite for Olympic gold in figure skating. On Sunday, the 20-year-old from northern Virginia landed six quads and a triple axel in his free skate, earning a personal-best 333.81 points. That left him 76.
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ChatGPT won't be the first to try to profit from itNature walks are good for you, but can a city stroll be just as good?Pope declares Cardinal Newman a church doctor and signals Catholic education is a priorityHegseth pide a las fuerzas armadas asignar a decenas de abogados al Departamento de JusticiaNave china Shenzhou-21 se acopla con estación espacial y establece récord de velocidadIlia Malinin, of the United States, performs in the men’s free program of the Skate Canada International figure skating competition in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Sunday, Nov. 2, 2025. Ilia Malinin, of the United States, performs in the men’s free program of the Skate Canada International figure skating competition in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Sunday, Nov. 2, 2025. Kao Miura, of Japan, performs in the men’s free program of the Skate Canada International figure skating competition in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Sunday, Nov. 2, 2025. Aleksandr Selevko, of Estonia, performs in the men’s free program of the Skate Canada International figure skating competition in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Sunday, Nov. 2, 2025. Ilia Malinin, of the United States, performs in the men’s free program of the Skate Canada International figure skating competition in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Sunday, Nov. 2, 2025. Ilia Malinin, of the United States, performs in the men’s free program of the Skate Canada International figure skating competition in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Sunday, Nov. 2, 2025. Ilia Malinin, of the United States, performs in the men’s free program of the Skate Canada International figure skating competition in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Sunday, Nov. 2, 2025. Ilia Malinin, of the United States, performs in the men’s free program of the Skate Canada International figure skating competition in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Sunday, Nov. 2, 2025. Kao Miura, of Japan, performs in the men’s free program of the Skate Canada International figure skating competition in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Sunday, Nov. 2, 2025. Kao Miura, of Japan, performs in the men’s free program of the Skate Canada International figure skating competition in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Sunday, Nov. 2, 2025. Aleksandr Selevko, of Estonia, performs in the men’s free program of the Skate Canada International figure skating competition in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Sunday, Nov. 2, 2025. Aleksandr Selevko, of Estonia, performs in the men’s free program of the Skate Canada International figure skating competition in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Sunday, Nov. 2, 2025. SASKATOON, Canada — U.S. figure skater Ilia Malinin broke the world record for the free skate in winning Skate Canada with ease on Sunday, keeping his two-year unbeaten streak intact and underscoring his status as favorite to win Olympic gold at the Milano-Cortina Games. The 20-year-old from Fairfax, Virginia, landed six quads along with a triple axel during a sublime free skate, set to music from the French supernatural thriller “Les Bal des Folles,” to finish with a personal-best 333.81 points. That left the two-time and reigning world champion 76.6 points clear of second-place Aleksandr Selevko, an absurd margin in figure skating’s elite events. Malinin’s free-skate score of 228.97 surpassed the previous record under the current scoring system of 224.92, set by Olympic champion Nathan Chen at the 2019 Grand Prix Final, when the American set the overall record with 335.30. Selevko, who is from Estonian, finished second with 257.21 points Sunday. Kao Miura of Japan took bronze with 253.69 points. In ice dance, Canadian world silver medalists Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier won their sixth consecutive Skate Canada title, earning 202.89 points. Allison Reed and Saulius Ambrulevicius of Lithuania were second with 200.92, while Marjorie Lajoie and Zachary Lagha leapfrogged the U.S. team of Christina Carreira and Anthony Ponomarenko to give the home nation a second medal. Gilles and Poirier, considered the biggest rivals to American dancers Madison Chock and Evan Bates at the Olympics in February, made a couple of big mistakes during their free dance Sunday for a total score well off their personal best. Malinin has not lost since November 2023, when he finished second at the Grand Prix de France. The three-time U.S. champion’s streak of perfection includes the past two world titles and championships at the past two Grand Prix Finals.Those events are all just building blocks for Malinin ahead of the Olympics, though, where he is the overwhelming favorite to follow Chen’s gold medal from four years ago with his own. Malinin just missed qualifying for the American team for the Beijing Games, in part because of his age at the time, though some believe U.S. Figure Skating erred in that decision. The son of Olympic skaters Roman Skorniakov and Tatiana Malinina, Malinin has gone on to become the dominant force in figure skating during this quadrennial. His ability to land quads with ease gives him a huge advantage, and he hasn’t even put the quad axel — a 4 1/2-revolution jump that only he has ever landed in competition — into his program yet. He opened his free skate Sunday with a quad flip, then landed the triple axel, before a quad lutz and quad loop. Malinin landed another quad lutz into a triple flip, a quad toe loop-triple toe loop combination, and he finished with a triple salchow-triple axel that left the crowd inside the Sasktel Centre in what seemed to be equal parts awe and admiration.The 24-year-old Selevko earned his first Grand Prix medal, a silver. Miura, a former Grand Prix winner, turned things around from a disappointing 10th-place finish at the Grand Prix de France with a bronze medal. Skate Canada is the third of six events in the Grand Prix series. The NHK Trophy is next weekend in Japan, followed by Skate America in Lake Placid, New York. The Finlandia Trophy is the final chance to qualify for the Grand Prix Final.
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