Ilia Malinin: “It seems to me that when the ISU lowered the value of quad axel jump, it sent a message that they don’t need unique elements.”
Translation of Ilia Malinin's comment about not jumping quad axel at the Grand Prix de France 2023. original [...]
Ekaterina Bobrova: “All the American team of male single skaters at Skate America is Russian. They’re trying to cancel Russian figure skating, but it’s not working very well.”
Translation of Ekaterina Bobrova's comments about Russian skaters at Skate America. original source: Championat's [...]
Tatiana Malinina: “We don’t go to California to work with Arutyunyan very often because Ilia attends school. But Ilia enjoys working with Rafael a lot.”
Translation of Tatiana Malinia’s comments about Ilia's cooperation with Rafael Arutyunyan made in the interview for [...]
Tatiana Malinina: “You can’t establish the Russian training system in America. You have to pay for all different lessons because the rink doesn’t provide such an option.”
Translation of Tatiana Malinia’s comments about training system in the USA made in the interview for [...]
Tatiana Malinia: “Ilia was inspired by Yuzuru Hanyu. Each time Hanyu made an attempt of quad axel, Ilia cheered for him and wanted him to land it at the Olympics.”
Translation of Tatiana Malinia's comments about her son Ilia Malinin learning quad axel made in the interview for [...]
Alexandra Trusova: “In the shape I was in back at the Olympics I’d participate in jumping competition and I’d like to compete with Chen, Malinin, Hanyu and Uno it it was international.”
Translation of Alexandra Trusova’s comments about quadruple and quintuple jumps and her attitude to jumping [...]
Rafael Arutyunyan: “I saw that Malinin had the quadruple axel in him from the very beginning. I believe in the quintuple toe loop too, he can do it.”
Translation of a big interview with Rafael Arutyunyan. About Ilia Malinin, Nathan Chen, Mao Asada and difficulties in [...]
Ari Zakaryan: “If the world had been properly informed that Ilia Malinin performed quadruple axel at the World Championships for the first time in history, it would have raised the level of our sport on a global scale.”
Interview with sports agent Ari Zakaryan. In an interview, Zakaryan talks about the state of the ice shows market [...]
Oleg Vasiliev “In Russia everything is based not solely on talent but primarily on the system. The system is designed to win medals and requires specific results from athletes within a specific timeframe.”
Big interview with Oleg Vasiliev. Parts of the interview were posted before. photo Alexander Vilf / RIA Novosti [...]
Oleg Vasiliev: “Could Ilia Malinin achieve everything he is showing now if he had an American mentality? I highly doubt it.”
Part of the interview with Oleg Vasiliev, Olympic champion in pair skating and coach of Olympic champions about figure [...]
Sergei Davydov: “Quintuples are only possible with a big prerotation? But there are also prerotations on quads. If you’re not “cheating”, it’s very difficult to execute the jump.”
Coach Sergei Davydov about Ilia Malinin and results of World Championships, development of figure skating and [...]
Ari Zakaryan: “Initially an easier content was planned, but Ilia is a guy who performs on adrenaline, so despite the visible fatigue and lack of rest after Worlds, he went for difficult content.”
Ilia Malinin's agent Ari Zakaryan commented on Ilia performance at the World Team Trophy 2023. View this [...]
Daniil Gleikhengauz: “At all the competitions we had in our country in women’s skating, elements were performed that were not seen at the World Championships.”
Daniil Gleikhengauz about the 2022/23 season. photo matchtv source: TASS / TASS Daniil Gleikhengauz: The [...]
Alexander Lakernik: “The development of club sports in figure skating is a virgin field with lots of opportunities. In this case, athletes represent not their countries but their clubs, which is not prohibited at all.”
Interview with Alexander Lakernik, ISU honorary vice-president. Lakernik assessed the level of the World Championship [...]
“Malinin went for quadruple axel and it was completely underscored. The judges just spat in his face!” Interview with sport’s agent Ari Zakaryan
Interview with sport's agent Ari Zakaryan. About this season, Ilia Malinin and World Championships. View [...]
Shoma Uno: “Ilia Malinin came up to me after my short program and said that he was concerned about my injury, cheered me up and said that I would succeed.”
Shoma Uno shared his emotions after winning the World Championships. View this post on Instagram [...]
Alexander Zulin: “Quads alone are not enough for Malinin to win? Well Sasha Trusova at the Olympics is your answer. After all, you need not just to run between the elements, but also to own your body.”
Alexander Zhulin told what Ilia Malinin lacked to win the World Championships. View this post on Instagram [...]
Evgenia Medvedeva: “When Nathan Chen was constantly slandered in 2016-2017 that he was only jumping, the man took up ballet—and once he became the new Olympic champion. So everything is still ahead for Malinin.
Evgenia Medvedeva shared her opinion on Ilia Malinin's bronze at the World Championships. View this post on [...]
Alexandra Trusova: “I liked Ilia Malinin’s performance the most. I won’t comment on the scores, I don’t know how the scores are given.”
Alexandra Trusova told whose performance she liked the most in man's single skating at the 2023 World [...]
Ilia Malinin: “At this Worlds, I learned a few things for myself. Sometimes the risk is not worth taking. Sometimes it’s smarter not to play big but to bet on clean skating.”
Ilia Malinin said that he needed to work on the second mark. View this post on Instagram A post [...]
Ilia Malinin: “I think today was just the best skating in my career. I’ve been working like crazy for the last two weeks.”
Ilia Malinin about his skating in the short program at 2023 World Championships in Saitama. View this post [...]
“At 15, he wanted to quit skating and do football. Now he wants to jump seven quads.” Interview with grandfather of Ilia Malinin
Interview with grandfather of Ilia Malinin. Valeri Malinin told about Ilia's mother's path in figure skating, [...]
“Trusova achieved brilliant results, showing five quads at the Olympics. But I think that Malinin’s 4.5 axel was so revolutionary that it outweighed the jury’s opinion.” Sports agent Ari Zakarian about ISU Awards
Sports agent Ari Zakarian about why Alexandra Trusova didn't get into the list of nominees for "Special Achievement" [...]
Tatiana Tarasova: “Ilia Malinin has nothing to do with the Russian figure skating school. He is an American athlete with Russian parents.”
Tatiana Tarasova said that the American Ilia Malinin has nothing to do with the Russian school of figure skating. [...]