Gold
By the time Ilia Malinin took the ice in Milan, his gold medal was a foregone conclusion. The twenty-one-year-old American is the greatest in the world. He is the two-time reigning world champion. He is the first and only skater to perform a quadruple axel. He is the “Quad God.” He was entering the free skate with a five-point lead, and his closest rival, Japan’s Yuma Kagiyama, just turned in an uncharacteristically poor performance. ...