Ilia Malinin comes from a family of Olympic skaters, including his parents Tatiana Malinina and Roman Skorniakov. Though they were both born in Russia, Malinin's parents competed for Uzbekistan at the 1998 Nagano and 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Olympics,

Ilia Malinin could have made Olympic history on Friday, but his free skate was filled with uncharacteristic mistakes.

Ilia Malinin is expected to cement his place in the pantheon of Winter Olympics stars Friday night if he wins the men's individual gold medal.

Both parents figure skated for Uzbekistan.

US superstar Ilia Malinin fell twice and didn’t medal in the men’s figure skating while Ukrainian skeleton athlete’s Olympics DQ appeal was dismissed, among other events.

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