The self-proclaimed Quad God, Malinin could attempt as many as seven quads in his long program at the 2025 world figure skating championships.

The American figure skating star is expected to repeat as a world champion on Saturday. But he had to channel his grief over losing fellow skaters in January’s D.C. plane crash to get there.

The ISU 2025 World Figure Skating Championships will hold a remembrance ceremony for the six members of the figure skating community lost in the D.C. plane crash. The ceremony will stream on Peacock on Wednesday, Mar. 26 at 6:15 p.m. ET.

Reigning champion Ilia Malinin delivered a season-best short program to take the lead over Japan's Yuma Kagiyama heading into Saturday night's free skate.

American figure skater Ilia Malinin was not even born when France's Surya Bonaly thumbed her nose at the International Skating Union's restrictive rules by famously performing a banned backflip at the 1998 Nagano Olympics.

Follow along here. BOSTON — The booming applause for Ilia Malinin started nearly 15 seconds before the end of his short program Thursday at the 2025 world figure skating championships.

BOSTON — Yuma Kagiyama was smiling when he said it, as if he were trying to lighten the meaning of his words and the implication they carried about the weight of the challenge for any figure skater trying to compete with Ilia Malinin. After Thursday’s ...

BOSTON — Ilia Malinin skated a personal best short program to open his bid for a repeat world figure skating title. But he has familiar company near the top of the leaderboard. Japan’s Yuma Kagiyama nearly skated a personal best as he bids for his ...