Ilia Malinin established such a big lead after his peerless short program at the U.S.
After starting his program with a textbook quad axel — a jump only Malinin has landed in competition — he doubled a planned quad loop, fell on a quad lutz and doubled another planned quad.
He followed with a perfect quad lutz before a mistake on his planned quad loop, which he turned into a double that appeared to slow down his momentum.
Malinin recovered to land a quad salchow before falling on his quad lutz.
The 29-year-old Brown, performing his “The Impossible Dream” program from last year, opened with two brilliant triple axels — one in sequence with a double — after missing the same jump during his short program.
Persons:
Ilia Malinin, axel —, lutz, ”, ” Malinin, Jason Brown, Malinin, axel, Roman Skorniakov, “, Brown, Tracy Wilson, ” Brown, Giacomo Puccini, Pulkinen, ” Pulkinen, Emily Chan, Spencer Howe, Ellie Kam, Danny O'Shea, Valentina, Maximiliano Fernandez, Chan, Howe, Madison Chock, Evan Bates, Christina Carreira, Anthony Ponomarenko, Emily Bratti, Ian Somerville, Amber Glenn, Isabeau Levito, ___
Organizations:
peerless, U.S, Camden, HBO, Nationwide, Skate America, Prix de France, Skating, Madison
Locations:
Columbus , Ohio, Montreal, U.S