“I would like Malinin to get closer to the title of king of figure skating” – Bobrova

Olympic champion Ekaterina Bobrova who practiced ice dancing, assessed the prospects of the American figure skater Ilya Malinin .

On Saturday, Malinin won the Grand Prix final in single skating. The 19-year-old athlete became the first figure skater in history to cleanly execute a quadruple axel in a short program, and in the free skate he jumped a quadruple loop for the first time in his career. The athlete was born in the United States into the family of Russian figure skaters Tatyana Malinina and Roman Skornyakov.

— I deeply respect Ilya Malinin, I love and admire him, but… Kagiyama comes out, skates, Sema Uno comes out, skates. Malinin comes out, and we can clearly see the difference in the leg work, in the knee work, in the plastic work. This is visible to the naked eye. They ask the question: “What should he do then?” Work. I want him to get a second year, I want him to get closer to the title of king of figure skating (smile), Bobrova was quoted as saying by the Championship.

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