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Ilia Malinin completes redemption arc with third straight world figure skating championship

The Guardian · · 513 words · By Bryan Armen Graham
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“Ilia Malinin claimed a third straight world figure skating championship on Saturday afternoon”
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The 2024 World Figure Skating Championships were held from 18 to 24 March at the Bell Centre in Montreal, Canada. Sanctioned by the International Skating Union (ISU), the World Championships are consi…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_World_Figure_Skating_Cham…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The 2025 World Figure Skating Championships were held from March 26 to 30 at the TD Garden in Boston, Massachusetts, in the United States. Sanctioned by the International Skating Union (ISU), the Worl…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The figure skating team event at the 2026 Winter Olympics was held from 6 to 8 February at the Milano Ice Skating Arena in Milan, Italy. The team event consisted of competitions in men's singles, wome…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Figure_skating_at_the_2026_Win…
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“The 21-year-old American entered the final at Prague’s O2 Arena with a commanding lead after Thursday’s short program, where his personal-best 111.29 had put him more than nine points clear of the field”
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The 2025 World Figure Skating Championships were held from March 26 to 30 at the TD Garden in Boston, Massachusetts, in the United States. Sanctioned by the International Skating Union (ISU), the Worl…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The men's singles figure skating competition at the 2026 Winter Olympics was held on 10 and 13 February at the Milano Ice Skating Arena in Milan, Italy. Mikhail Shaidorov of Kazakhstan won the gold me…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Ilia Malinin (born December 2, 2004) is an American figure skater. He is a 2026 Olympic Games team event gold medalist, three-time World champion (2024, 2025, 2026), three-time Grand Prix Final champi…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilia_Malinin
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“Skating last, Malinin produced a free program of 218.11 to finish on 329.40 points”
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The 2025 World Figure Skating Championships were held from March 26 to 30 at the TD Garden in Boston, Massachusetts, in the United States. Sanctioned by the International Skating Union (ISU), the Worl…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_World_Figure_Skating_Cham…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The men's singles figure skating competition at the 2026 Winter Olympics was held on 10 and 13 February at the Milano Ice Skating Arena in Milan, Italy. Mikhail Shaidorov of Kazakhstan won the gold me…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Figure_skating_at_the_2026_Win…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Ilia Malinin (born December 2, 2004) is an American figure skater. He is a 2026 Olympic Games team event gold medalist, three-time World champion (2024, 2025, 2026), three-time Grand Prix Final champi…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilia_Malinin
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“Japanese rivals Yumi Kagiyama (306.67) and Shun Sato (288.54)”
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“he once again packed his program with difficulty, landing five quadruple jumps, including a quad toe-triple toe combination followed by a backflip late in the program”
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“A month ago in Milan, Malinin had arrived as the overwhelming favorite for gold, only to fall twice and tumble to eighth in one of the biggest upsets in Olympic figure skating history”
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“Behind him Kagiyama, the Olympic silver medalist, surpassed his personal-best free skate score to a selection from Puccini’s Turandot only to finish second again”
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“Sato’s crowd-pleasing program to Stravinsky’s Firebird repeated his Milano Cortina bronze”
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“Canada’s Stephen Gogolev placed fourth (281.04) ahead of France’s Adam Siao Him Fa, who landed two quads but fell on a third and dropped out of the medals to fifth place (271.56)”
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“The absence of Olympic champion Mikhail Shaidorov, who like Alysa Liu skipped worlds, left the spotlight squarely on Malinin”
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“The Virginia-born skater became the first man to win three straight world titles since former US star Nathan Chen, who did it in 2018, 2019 and 2021 after the 2020 competition was canceled due to the pandemic”
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