19-year-old figure skater breaks world record 

Right?! I cannot stop watching it. He put me in literal tears.

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Because it was towards the end, and you could feel that the dream would be a reality?

@@brynneholt1990 maybe because i remember when the triple axel was the hardest thing in men's skating, and to see it tacked on the back end of a triple-triple combination at the end of a long program was very cool and emblematic of much skating has changed

​@@alexdm4868 yessss that's me.. like tripple axel attached at the end of jump combo (and tripple lutz is hard too!). It's amazing! Incredible! I was speechless!

I love how he did it out of an Ina Bauer too, can’t say I’ve ever seen a triple lutz out of an Ian Bauer in all my years.

Each time I've watch this WR FS performance, my tears just start falling especially in the last 30 seconds.

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@@Idontthinksobro toxic

lmao poosay

Me too.😢

If he gets through the next two years without injury.

Absolutely! This performance will never be matched. As Tara Lipinsky said, “it’s untouchable”.

@@montanasuede Exactly. This was an Olympic Gold Medal performance. I'm crossing my fingers that Malinin didn't peak too early. He's got to hold on to his consistency for the next decade.

Yep, they should learn from koreans and what they did with Cha Jun-hwan, boy is almost a k-pop star :)

Unfortunately they don’t have money, they can’t even keep videos of their skaters’ winning programs up online so fans can watch them. There’s no way to even rewatch any past events.

@@algimante2097the difference is US culture isn’t able to make someone into a “K-pop”-esque figure, Americans don’t care for that kind of thing in general.

@@saqweqi know right NBC literally deleted his performance off of YT which had like 4 mil views. I cant believe they delete all figure skating performances now it’s beyond disappointing. (ik it has to due with copyright but i swear it didn’t use to be like this)

He's going to attempt a quint either at Worlds 2025 or Milan 2026. Assuming the ISU gives them point values, of course.

Nathan Chen was the son of immigrants, too.

@@skatefan9495 I mentioned it, because Tatiana and Roman were also skaters on ice, and not because Ilia being a son of emigrants.

Russians are the best in figure skating and ballet.

@@plumeria66Russian men?

Absolutely correct, but these guys on the tv panel know little about figure skating and not really interested in knowing more. What about all the other elements of his routine? Unless it "makes" a headline, they don't want to know.

SHE WAS referring to FREE SKATE hun... LMAO

"...the highest score in history during his free skate..." I think it was pretty clear what she was talking about.

She said, “highest score in history DURING HIS FREE SKATE.” She didn’t say highest overall score. Perhaps your listening was lazy.

@@bts_txt27jenn63 Listen to her introduction, doofus. I specifically mentioned her "introduction" in my first sentence where she states earning the "highest score in history DURING his freeskate". That's NOT the same as her phrasing at the end where she says at 1:36 "the score, the highest ever FOR a freeskate". There's a big difference there. A skater can certainly post the highest score ever for a competition "during" his freeskate, but that's different than scoring the highest ever for the freeskate alone. Her poor phrasing easily makes it appear Ilia earned the highest score ever during a historic freeskate, but that's NOT the case. He earned the highest FREESKATE score ever. That's how it should have been specified. Clearly, you're not a reporter or writer.

I’m also claiming half a gold and a silver from the American Canadians 😝

Rhapsody in Blue (in yellow)!

Which makes it even more impressive!

Wow!! Most people including myself didn't know this. No one thought that anyone would be able to do a quad axel ever. I heard it was mathematically impossible.

@@Bellajane127 I learned that from watching videos on here 😁

Exactly. And Ilia Malinin is the son of Tatiana Malininia and Roman Skornyakov.

Russia =doping

Hid Dad said he has been practicing that.

😯

Cool! @@hattiem.7966

Train in Montreal Canada at Ice academy ofMontreal .. 11 out of the 20 finalists train in Montreal

Russian-American skater.

Nobody wants to hear about cheater Russians banned at all Olympics because of doping

For what? Let’s not do to him what was done to Nathan Chen leading up to 2018.

@@brynneholt1990Nathan chen no soy fan de él pero la tuvo más difícil no solo tenía una presión impresionante porque era joven y uno de los favoritos , si no porque competía en contra de yuzuru hanyu el mejor de todos los tiempos en el patinaje artístico, este niño ilia es muy talentoso pero honestamente no tiene competencia no hay muchos en el patinaje ahora de la calidad de chen y hanyu ,lo máximo sería shoma uno y ya es más grande de edad.

BB can still cook OK & is a genuinely charming man

This is so accurate lol

Russian-American athlete, trained by two Russians, lol. 😅

In case you were too delu ded and socially inept to notice, Hanyu isn’t mainstream in the West whatsoever, figure skating in general isn’t, so most people really don’t give 2 shits about his show at all LOL. Since most of his fans are social reject femcels they’re deluded enough to believe he’s uber famous outside of Japan. Y’all actually believe people here would find a no-chin like him attractive at all LOL go outside and touch some grass most people here are actually normal and don’t have weeaboo yellow fever like them creepy F*nyus

Why weren't the Russian men winning more medals before they were banned?

Russians have proved they cheat with doping even at the last Olympics

He was born in Virginia to immigrant parents. He is as American as anyone.

Russia have been banned from Olympics because of doping

​@@geraldrevels6956When he breaks a world record, certainly, lol.

He is American.

​@@lenaa9057 Ilia's parents are both 100% Russian & both skated in previous Olympics for Russia. Ilia's auxiliary coach is the legendary Armenian coach Rafael Arutyunyan who has coached a long list of world champions including Nathan Chen, Mao Asada, etc etc etc . Ilia's grandfather still coaches skating in Russia.

He is a born and raised first-generation American. His ascent has been more of a zig-zag than smooth. He has paid his dues. He does have the advantage of being raised with the unusual work ethic and mentality training more prevalent in foreign cultures. Nonetheless, there are hard working and lazy people in every culture.

You have amoeba-tier IQ

Russian roots

Here in America we don't distinguish between the pure and impure. Everyone with citizenship is a full American.

What does that even mean?

LMAO the only pure americans are native americans, we are literally a mixing pot of all people around the entire world

@@maytc2011 Citizenship can be changed, but blood cannot be replaced.

This is hilarious. Imagine being so stupid you think you can tell or even give af about how “good” of a person someone is in a competitive sport. You sound like someone who spends way too much time on Twitter and don’t know how the real world works. Like those K-Poopies who wish death on people and call them racist because they don’t care for their untalented (fem)boy groups.

Tell us all why he dosen’t seem to be a “good person!” We’re all agog waiting for your expert opinion.

@@gailwebb9619 read the articles and how he interacts with people

@@aihngelleyou mean how he made a stupid joke about PCS? Typical teenager comment that honestly is pretty tame compared to the norm. What he said was stupid but not egregiously bad. He deserved a slap on the wrist for that. Twitter types just don’t like him because he’s a mildly cocky white kid and they’re getting PTSD from sitting by themselves at lunch in high school.