Ilia Malinin defended his world title with a free skate that earned a standing ovation inside TD Garden on Saturday night.

Advertisement It was him. Ilia Malinin is him. “I was not expecting them to cheer me on halfway through my step sequence,” he said, flashing a humble smirk. “But it was definitely an ...

Correction/clarification: A previous version of this story incorrectly reported that Ilia Malinin is the only person to land six quads in a program. Nathan Chen also has landed six quads in ...

BOSTON — “Nervous.” That was one of the first words to roll off the lips of Ilia Malinin late Thursday afternoon, this after the Quadg0d submitted a scrapbook-worthy short program at the ...

Malinin won last year's world championships by a whopping 24-point margin over Japan's Yuma Kagiyama. BOSTON — It was a little after 10 p.m. on Tuesday night when Ilia Malinin finally took the ...

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 ...

BOSTON — It was a little after 10 p.m. on Tuesday night when Ilia Malinin finally took the ice for his designated practice session at TD Garden. The defending world champion drew the last slot ...

Only two other men, Nathan Chen and Yuzuru Hanyu, have scored more than Ilia Malinin's 110.41 points in a short program, as Malinin leads at the World Figure Skating Championships ahead of the ...

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 ...

BOSTON (AP) — American figure skating sensation Ilia Malinin sheepishly grinned when his closest rival, Japanese star Yuma Kagiyama, said what seems to be on everyone's minds these days ...