What makes it so impressive? Any axel jump–single, double, triple, or quad–actually involves an extra half rotation. So a single axel is really 1.5 turns in the air, the double 2.5, and so on. So yes, ...

Cortina? Explore the high-stakes jump as figure skating stars Amber Glenn, Adeliia Petrosian and Alysa Liu battle at the 2026 Winter Olympics.

During the figure skating team competition on Sunday night, 24-year-old Mirai Nagasu became the first American in history to land a triple axel jump at the Olympics. She also became just the second ...

The 2026 Winter Olympics is fully underway in Italy, and it's once again time for figure skating to take center stage. One of the biggest stars on this year's U.S. team is Ilia Malinin, nicknamed the ...

All eyes are on American Ilia Malinin as men's figure skating gets underway at the 2026 Olympics. The 21-year-old first-time Olympian is already making waves for groundbreaking achievements in figure ...

The axel is the only one of figure skating’s six jumps in which the skater enters going forward instead of backward. This is why axels have an extra half-turn. To build momentum for the jump, Malinin ...

Even casual fans of figure skating have likely heard of the triple axel. And now, thanks to U.S. men’s champion Ilia Malinin, you’ll be hearing a lot about the quadruple axel, or quad axel, too. What ...

Ilia Malinin has made a name by accomplishing the difficult feat in figure skating.