How it feels to watch @ilia_quadg0d_malinin’s Quadruple Axel for the first time (and every time since). In 2022, I recorded Ilia Malinin landing the first ever Quadruple Axel (4.5 revolutions) in Grand Prix competition. Specifically, I wanted to capture the crowd’s reaction after the jump. Every single face in that sold out crowd was there to watch something once deemed impossible. I know at least one photographer who didn’t even want to shoot it—he just wanted to witness it with his own two eye

The quadruple jump used to be a skater's secret weapon. Now -- it's a necessity. So how do skaters train to complete the jump and just how difficult is it? Kelly O’Grady explains tomorrow on CBS Mornings. | CBS Mornings

3.7K views · 191 reactions | Kurt Browning's first quadruple jump...

For decades, it was considered the holy grail of figure skating, a jump so difficult, so daring, so completely defiant of the laws of physics that nobody would ever land it—until the quadruple axel was conquered by a young American who calls himself the Quad God. His real name is Ilia Malinin. And that name is everywhere this Olympics. The 21-year old from Northern Virginia comes into the Milan Cortina Olympics as one of Team USA’s biggest stars. Since mastering the quad axel, he has continued t

Kurt Browning making history with the 1st quadruple jump ratified in competition at the 1988 World championships | Old Canada Series