Ilia Malinin, with an unparalleled shape, repeats itself as the world champion of figure skating

Boston – Ilia Malinin has really climbed, claiming her second consecutive world championship, its excellence that eliminates all the drama.

He obtained six of his quadruple jumps patented with his couple and height of the brand. The quads come so easily for him. But Malinin destroyed the field on Saturday with all his bag. Explosiveness and emotion. Ambition and execution.

His 208.15 points in free skate were more than 15 best of the second best. His total, adding his score from the short program, was a landslide victory with a repeated world title: 318.56. The ovation he received from the exhausted TD garden was an exciting exclamation point to the declaration he made.

He will head to the winter Olympics in Milan as one of the largest sports stars, having won two worlds and three US championships with his breathtaking style. And it is clear that he is still growing as a skater.

Mikhail Shaidorov of Kazakhstan took silver with 287.47. Yuma Kagiyama Japanese took bronze with 278.19.

Malinin’s development was on display in Boston. His maturity and refinement. He was engaged in the mood of “I am not a vampire” falling on the contrary, exciting anguish and passion for his whole body. A much more convincing routine of her first world championship.

He established the world record with a score of 227.79 in the free skate of the 2024 world championships. He landed six quadruple jumps and ended with a triple sequence of Axel Lutz. He saved the best of someone else last as a flexion of his resistance.

The formula still exists. It is a virtual block for Malinin. Upload his routine with many quads that his 20 -year -old body can manage and will win from the only degree of difficulty.

“Just looking at what he made, yes,” said Nathan Chen, the 2022 Olympic champion in the men’s singles that now studies in Yale, before the free skating program on Saturday.

“He won events. He won a world championship. He won the national championships. Clearly, at the top of his field right now. So whatever he is doing certainly working on. And I don’t think you have to do any wholesale changes right now. And you can also see the improvement with everything else.

Where Malinin could be directed, in the beams of figure skating, it could be prudent to get closer to his craftsmanship of the Oldly. So this year, he brought the quadriceps in advance: a quadrola, a quad lutz and a quad cycle in his first four jumps. He spent the rest of his routine making the public feel amazed.

Chen opened the way to the regularity of the quad jumps. The quad king has been nicknamed for having normalized the most difficult element of sport. And we didn’t want a complete Olympic cycle to be surmounted. Remember training with Malinin when he was just doing triple. But it was clear that the quadriceps would soon land. Now the self -proclaimed “Quadg0d” is a deity conquered while Chen grounds towards McAT.

Especially with Malinin’s popularity, there is a child at this moment who works to do the quadriceps. An all -round arsenal is essential for sustainability.

But Malinin does not have to honestly. Its basic score with such a difficult routine is high enough to make it untouchable, except for a disaster of multiple falls. Camel and jazz hands do not produce the same elevation.

“I think more generally,” Chen continued, “if you look at the way the point system is structured: if you throw down big jumps, it lands them, you get good points. So it makes no sense to try to avoid that position.”

Malinin said he changed his training in the name of perfection. He paid close attention to small things instead of giving all his energy to his explosiveness. In his American party, while his nation of origin awakens his celebrity, he was more than a pony to a hat -trick. It is an excellent training of all time.

(Photo of Ilia Malinin at the end of Saturday skate routine on Saturday: Jurij Kodrun / International Skating Union via Getty Images)