A year ago, barely crowned at the end of the World Championships organized in March in Montreal (Canada), the American Ilia Malinin shouted: “I’m in shock, I still can’t believe I realized that. » This was a free program with six quadruple jumps. An unprecedented madness in the industry, especially since it included the most shameful of all flights, this quad axel that only this Uzbek child of ice, born in Fairfax (United States) from the loves of Tatiana Malinina, winner of the Grand Prix in 1998, and Roman Skorniakov, who competed in the Olympic Games twice (19th in 1998 and 2002), remains capable to this day to twist.