'This was my time': Malinin takes men's figure skating crown with record performance

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MONTREAL — The second Ilia Malinin took the ice on Saturday night, he decided he would try to play the ace up his sleeve. 'I knew that this could be the best skate of my life,” he said. “Or it could go terribly wrong.

MONTREAL — The second Ilia Malinin took the ice on Saturday night, he decided he would try to play the ace up his sleeve.The self-proclaimed “Quad God” lived up to his nickname, spinning through the air and landing his patented quad axel to open his free program.Malinin hit five more quad jumps cleanly to snatch the men’s singles crown and set a record at the world figure skating championships.

Malinin’s jaw-dropping display had fans in the Bell Centre seats cheering, gasping and gearing up for a standing ovation 15 seconds before his athletic feat was over. Malinin dethroned two-time defending world champion Shoma Uno of Japan, who fell to fourth after missing two quad jumps to start his program.All they could do was tip their caps to what they’d just witnessed.“I put it all out there, I did as much as I could,” added Kagiyama. “What I really realized was, try as I might, I probably wouldn't have been able to win this championship.”

But after hitting his quad axel Saturday and building momentum through the first few segments of the program, those concerns looked long gone.

 

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