Malinin first landed the quad axel in competition at the U.S. International Figure Skating Classic in Lake Placid, New York in September 2022. It was the first clean, fully-rotated quad axel to be ...

Yuzuru Hanyu of Japan falls after attempting a quadruple axel jump during the men's free skate at the Winter Olympics in Beijing on Feb. 10. (Matthew Stockman/Getty Images) ...

A triple axel is already one of the most difficult jumps in figure skating. For men's singles skaters, a triple axel is required to be a contender, but for women, it's still a rarity.

This seven-year-old figure skater wanted to learn how to do an axel jump, but it was going to take a lot of practice to get there. After a year of falling and getting back up, she landed an axel ...

Ilia Malinin, the 17-year-old world junior champion from Virginia, landed what appeared to be a clean quadruple Axel, a jump that no skater has hit in competition, at a U.S. Figure Skating jump camp ...

Anything more than a quarter-revolution of under-rotation would earn a downgrade – as Hanyu did in December – to a triple Axel worth just 8.00 points. Grade of execution (GOE) points may be ...

Facing intense scrutiny, Kamila Valieva, the 15-year-old Russian skating star, stumbled out of her opening triple axel but still narrowly won the women’s Olympic short program on Tuesday.

Virginia figure skater Ilia Malinin just did something that no other ice athlete has ever accomplished: On Wednesday night in Lake Placid, he landed a quad axel—a stunning four-and-a-half revolution ...

For all of its difficulty, the 4A is a high-risk-low-reward jump. Its base value of 12.50 is the highest of the six figure skating jumps but just one point more than the quadruple Lutz.