Ilya Malinin moved to the Great category. Rafael Harutyunyan about Ilya Malinin.

[@JuliannaAgardi]

❤❤❤❤ I love him!❤❤❤

[@user-mp1hv2ng4z]

Ilya Malinin est passé dans la catégorie Grand. Rafael Harutyunyan à propos d'Ilya Malinin. C'est d'une évidence : )) Merci pour cette création vidéo ! Compliments à Ilia Malinin et meilleurs vœux pour sa carrière professionnelle : ))

[@СветланаШокшуева]

Илье повезло родиться там, где он родился, и с родителями фигуристами, это его счастье

[@gregbell3559]

More like the GOAT

[@miriamceci1561]

Excelente patinador Ilian se perfila para hacer el campeón olímpico de las olimpiadas de invierno 2026

[@ЕленаЦветкова-н5к]

Увы... Есть ещё - Россия!

[@anamarialucero4148]

Que brillante presente y gran futuro! Tiene el temple de otro gran patinador Evgeny Plushenko. Que siga asi.

[@angiecastro2457]

@anamarialucero4148 Revise bien la historia, el del temple de Oro es Alexei Yagudin, fue el único que pudo vencer a Plushenko!, Plushenko se cayó (4T) en el programa corto de las Olimpiadas de SLC

[@L1623VP]

I respect Raf Aratunian, but let's be clear, Ilia Malinin is NOT "a graduate of the Russian Soviet figure skating school" as he claimed. Aratunian also stated, "Malinin is not a product of the American system." The Soviet Union has not existed since 1989 thus, how can Ilia be a "graduate of the Russian Soviet skating school?" Ilia also does NOT train in Russia. He trains in America. Yes, his parents who act as his coaches are Russian, however, Ilia was born and raised in the U.S. and grew up immersed in American culture. He acts like any other U.S. teenager and has admitted he's NEVER been to Russia. Over 90% of his talent is raw talent that didn't come from his parents coaching him. We must remember both his parents had poor, losing careers as figure skaters. His father won NO significant competitions of any kind, and his mother's only claim to fame is winning Four Continents Championship ONCE and the Grand Prix Final ONCE. I wouldn't say his parents offered him too much in the way of "special" "Russian" technique as much as Ilia is just a very naturally gifted skater. I have no problem with Russians celebrating Ilia too, but certain people need to stop staking "claims" to him. Let him just be who he is and win what he wins without all the territorial insecurity.

[@russki1978]

Tatiana Malinina did have the best technique of her generation, though, whether it's Russian technique or not. This is not reflected by the medals she won over her carreer. Her jumps were textbook. In fact, the ISU uses videos of her to demonstrate how jumps should be done. She also skated professionally until her early 30s which for today's standards would be quite exceptional.

[@L1623VP]

@@russki1978 Once again, if she was so great, why did she lose so many competitions? If the Russian "Soviet" school of skating is so great and responsible for Ilia's success, why hasn't Russia been able to produce a men's figure skating champion in the last 22 years? It's because a skater's success depends largely on their natural gift for skating and not the "school" in which they train or even on the coach they have. Even Raf would have to admit he couldn't have turned Vincent Zhou into Nathan Chen. Nathan was successful because he was Nathan with all his innate talents. It's the same with Ilia.

[@russki1978]

@@L1623VPI never said Ilia owns his success to the Soviet school of skating. I merely pointed out that his mother was far from being a failure as you seem to suggest. Even if she didn't win many medals she certainly had enormous potential so we can assume that she taught her son. There are many reasons involved why this or that skater has a successful career or not. Just to give one example: Evgenia Medvedeva barely had any talent for the technical side of skating. She won all her medals with cheated technique and ridiculous overscoring. And that is all thanks to the 'school' led by Eteri Tutberidze. She turned an average skater into a two-time World and European champion.

[@L1623VP]

@@russki1978 It's interesting that you should bring Medvedeva up. There was much talk during her brief success that her technique was bad, particularly her jump technique due to wrenching her shoulders and upper body around on takeoff. Now the poor girl has a back problem. That's no surprise, but it's the very reason she had to retire so young. As you said, so much for the Russian "school". What good is that training if it leads to bad technique, one-off champions, and careers cut short? I think Raf is taking far too much credit away from Ilia himself and giving it to this flawed "system" that seeks to create champions at all costs. I'm glad Ilia isn't part of that system.

[@russki1978]

@@L1623VP The 'Russian' school does not exist. It suggests that there is only one Russian training method, which is nonsens. Eteri's methods are completely different from other Russian coaches. She is a cheater who milks the scoring system and who doesn't care about her students' health. Not so for coaches like Mishin. And not all Russian skaters have to retire at a young age. Tuktamysheva had a long career, and a good jumping technique to back it up (and she did medal at Worlds and Europeans despite the judges holding her back all the time). In the past, there were Slutskaya, Butyrskaya (who won Worlds at 26 and Europeans at 29) and last but not least Tatiana Malinina with a perfect if inconsistent technique and poor choreography but still competing at 30. For the men, Yagudin and Plushenko both had good skills and long careers. Plushenko's student Zhilina has perfect jumps including a quad lutz with ideal toe-pick. All of this is irrelevant since the point is that Ilia Malinin has a mother who knows how to jump and she almost certainly taught her son a thing or two. It doesn't matter whether she's Russian or American or Chinese.

[@sheilabloom6735]

Uzbekhistan.

[@mageayacam100]

Yuzuru Hanyu is and will always be the king, the emperor of ice. Only Yuzuru turns this sport into art. It is not just about jumping, it is about art and Yuzuru Hanyu is synonymous with art.

[@hilomdiha]

Yuzuru is great but not the greatest. Stop overrating him. Ilia holds the world record now for the free skate. So ilia is the "NOW" not yuzuru. Yuzuru's time is over. Just accept it.