After ‘Olympic curse’ hits Ilia Malinin in his free skate, the ‘Quad god’ sets his ...

MILAN (AP) — Ilia Malinin need only to have looked into the stands on Friday night, where Nathan Chen watched as the American figure skating sensation known as the “Quad god” fell apart in his Olympic free skate, for inspiration about what might come next. The overwhelming favorite to win gold, Malinin fell twice amid a calamitous program that he seemingly had perfected over the past year, sending him tumbling from first place all the way off the podium and allowing Mikhail Shaidorov to claim gold instead. It bore an eerie resemblance to the scene that unfolded at the 2018 Pyeongchang Games. Chen, who like Malinin had been groomed by Hall of Fame coach Rafael Arutyunyan, was considered the...