Four-time Russian champion Maxim Kovtun during a conversation with , he suggested that the American figure skater Ilya Malinin I’ve already done five jumps.
Malinin won the Grand Prix final on Saturday. In the short program, the 19-year-old skater was the first in history to perform a quadruple axel; in the free skate, he jumped a quadruple loop for the first time in his career.
“With his abilities, he is able to do a quadruple Salchow and a toe loop, since there are 4.5 turns due to the forward push, with the right technique you can fly a little more. I guess he’s already doing five, but he’s waiting for the right moment to show it and present it properly,” Kovtun told .
Malinin was born in the United States to the family of Russian figure skaters Tatyana Malinina and Roman Skornyakov.
Source : MatchTV
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