United States figure skating superstar Ilia Malinin gets his first real pressure-packed moment on Sunday at the 2026 Winter Olympics. It's the team competition, and the U.S. and Japan enter the final ...

MILAN — Ilia Malinin had just landed a backflip, a trick that fires up a crowd like few other elements in skating. He landed, and looked into the crowd, and there was Novak Djokovic, the tennis GOAT, ...

MILAN — Sunday night had turned to Monday morning and Ilia Malinin, the world’s best figure skater, stood in a crowded hallway beneath the Milano Ice Skating Arena trying to leave the building. He had ...

Saturday's men's short program figured to be a coronation of sorts for American figure skating star Ilia Malinin. The Virginia native, dubbed "Quad God" for his penchant for fully rotated quadruple ...

The self-anointed "Quad God" takes the ice on Saturday. Ilia Malinin, 21, is heavily-favored to win gold at the Milan Cortina Olympics thanks to his ability to land the quad axel, a jump once thought ...

Want more Olympics updates? Get our behind-the-scenes newsletter for what it's like to be at these Games. MILAN — The U.S. took gold in the figure skating team event for the second Winter Olympics in ...

The figure skating competition at the 2026 Milan Cortina Winter Olympics is once again poised to be a main attraction featuring several Americans with star potential. The United States even has a shot ...

Some of the best American medal hopefuls for the Milan Cortina Olympics come from figure skating and alpine skiing. Ilia Malinin is the name to know for figure skating. The reigning world and United ...

The 2026 Winter Olympics begin on Feb. 6 in Milan, Italy Natasha Dye is a writer-reporter for PEOPLE covering sports. Her previous work appears in The New York Post and Popstar! Magazine. Matthew ...

ST. LOUIS -- Punctuated by the latest showstopping and backflipping performance by Ilia Malinin and the electrifying trio of Amber Glenn, Alysa Liu and Isabeau Levito, the U.S. Figure Skating ...

Maxim Naumov, a Massachusetts figure skater whose parents were killed almost one year ago in a plane crash near Washington, D.C, is headed to the 2026 Olympics as part of Team USA. Naumov made the ...

No one knew if Maxim Naumov could muster the strength to compete again – not even himself. His parents and lifelong coaches – world champions Evgenia Shishkova and Vadim Naumov – were killed in a ...