Ilia Malinin Has the Last Laugh for Team U.S.A.

Ilia Malinin Has the Last Laugh for Team U.S.A.: a running story on the front pages of 4 newsrooms from 8 February 2026 to 15 February 2026, 12 headlines over 8 days.

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15 February 2026

• AP After 'Olympic curse' hits Ilia Malinin in his free skate, the 'Quad god' sets his sights on future

14 February 2026

• CNN Ilia Malinin seemed at ease carrying the weight of Olympic expectation on his shoulders – until he wasn’t
• AP Ilia Malinin falls twice in free skate, allows Kazakhstan's Mikhail Shaidorov to win Olympic gold
• New York Times Ilia Malinin’s Catastrophic Free Skate: ‘I Blew It.’

13 February 2026

• CNN The ‘Quad God’ made history with his Olympic backflip, but some say the glory was owed to a Black skater

12 February 2026

• CNN How Maxim Naumov and Ilia Malinin are spearheading men’s figure skating

11 February 2026

• AP Malinin made history with his Olympic backflip, but some say the glory was owed to a Black skater
• Wall Street Journal The most spectacular backflip at this Winter Olympics is happening on ice, not snow. And it’s the highlight of figure skater Ilia Malinin’s program.

10 February 2026

• New York Times Ilia Malinin Shows the World How He Has Reinvented Figure Skating

9 February 2026

• New York Times Ilia Malinin Has the Last Laugh for Team U.S.A.
• Wall Street Journal Ilia Malinin delivered an electric performance to clinch the Americans’ first-ever team figure-skating gold.

8 February 2026

• Wall Street Journal Ilia Malinin does stuff on the ice that nobody else has ever been able to do. See for yourself.