{"id":982,"date":"2026-02-27T21:13:25","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T21:13:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/freshora.xyz\/?p=982"},"modified":"2026-02-27T21:13:26","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T21:13:26","slug":"video-the-night-the-ice-felt-too-small-for-what-ilia-malinin-brought-to-it-before-more-than-5000-stunned-spectators-in-angers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freshora.xyz\/?p=982","title":{"rendered":"[VIDEO] The Night the Ice Felt Too Small for What Ilia Malinin Brought to It Before more than 5,000 stunned spectators in Angers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>With just 64 days until the start of the 2026 Olympic Winter Games, the world\u2019s best figure skaters opened the Grand Prix Final at IG Arena in Nagoya, Japan, marking the final major global test before Milan Cortina 2026. The Americans came out strong, highlighted by a podium-ready position for\u00a0Ilia Malinin\u00a0in the men\u2019s event and a commanding rhythm dance for\u00a0Madison Chock\u00a0and\u00a0Evan Bates, as Japan surged in the men\u2019s field and pairs remained a razor-thin battle from top to bottom.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>U.S. phenom\u00a0Malinin, the heavy favorite to chase a landmark third straight Grand Prix Final title, sits third with 94.05 \u2014 less than five points off second \u2014 after a step out of his quad Axel. All day in practice the 21-year-old had been landing a history-making quadruple Axel triple toe combination, however, under the pressure of competition he was unable to hold on. The reigning world champion still impressed with his overall quality, despite slightly seeming more shaky than he has appeared in recent seasons, remaining firmly in contention heading into the free skate, where his arsenal of quads including another quad Axel, could swing the standings back in his favor.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"576\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/freshora.xyz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/LIKCGIf--576x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11\" style=\"width:113px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/freshora.xyz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/LIKCGIf--576x1024.jpg 576w, https:\/\/freshora.xyz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/LIKCGIf--169x300.jpg 169w, https:\/\/freshora.xyz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/LIKCGIf-.jpg 675w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With just 64 days until the start of the 2026 Olympic Winter Games, the world\u2019s best figure skaters opened the Grand Prix Final at IG Arena in Nagoya, Japan, marking the final major global&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freshora.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freshora.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freshora.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freshora.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freshora.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=982"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/freshora.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":983,"href":"https:\/\/freshora.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982\/revisions\/983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freshora.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freshora.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freshora.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}