Agent Ari Zakaryan: ‘Malinin can do a quintuple jump, but because of the judges’ scores, it doesn’t make sense’

Down-the-line.com / Figure Skating. Well-known sports agent Ari Zakarian has shared his opinion on the performance of American figure skater Ilya Malinin at the World Championships in Japan. Malinin performed a quadruple axel, but eventually became the third.

“Literally today we spoke with Ilya about the jump five, and he said he already has a jump five in his pocket. He can do it, but given the current system, he won’t. in competitions. It does not matter But in training he will jump it, and if anyone wants to come and see what the five jump looks like, he invites everyone to him.

We will fix a day, an hour. Everyone come. No one will take money for this. Ilya just wants people to see what the progress is,” Zakarian said, as quoted by RIA Novosti.