American short track speedskater Brandon Kim crashed during a heat on Monday as Team USA looked to make some inroads in the last week of the Olympics.
Ilia Malinin comes from a family of Olympic skaters, including his parents Tatiana Malinina and Roman Skorniakov. Though they were both born in Russia, Malinin's parents competed for Uzbekistan at the 1998 Nagano and 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Olympics,
Ilia Malinin could have made Olympic history on Friday, but his free skate was filled with uncharacteristic mistakes.
Ilia Malinin is expected to cement his place in the pantheon of Winter Olympics stars Friday night if he wins the men's individual gold medal.
Both parents of the record-breaking, two-time World Champion American figure skater represented Uzbekistan in the Winter Olympics If there is one thing you should watch in the 2026 Winter Olympics as it kicks off this week,
Malinin is the son of two Russian-born Olympic figure skaters, Tatiana Malinina and Roman Skorniakov, who competed for Uzbekistan at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan, and the 2002 Olympics in Salt Lake City. They later moved to Virginia, where Ilia was born in 2004. He started skating at age 6.
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