Ilia Malinin lands quadruple Axel at jump camp

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 on Thursday.

“It was exhilarating witnessing the ease of #iliamalinin 4A today,” Tom Zakrajsek, a coach of other U.S. skaters, tweeted. “He did two of them and they were both clean, flat backwards. Mark my words the ⁦@ISU_Figure⁩ will have to update their scale of values very soon.”