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Ilia Malinin of the United States currently sits in the gold-medal position after the men’s figure skating short program qualification round on Tuesday.
The 21-year-old from Vienna, Virginia, known as the “Quad God,” scored 108.16 in the short program, skating to Dies Irae from the video game The Lost Crown, executing a quadruple flip, quadruple lutz and a backflip.
Japan’s Yuma Kagiyama, the silver medallist from Beijing 2022, is currently second in the short program, scoring 103.07.
France’s Adam Siao Him Fa set a personal best score of 102.55 points to put him into third place heading into the final free programs on Friday.
WATCH | Malinin flips into first place in the…