Extended Interview: Ilia Malinin
CBS News Sunday Morning with Jane Pauley
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4.3 • 943 Ratings
🗓️ 4 February 2026
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Figure skating superstar Ilia Malinin talks with correspondent Jonathan Vigliotti in advance of the Winter Olympics. He talks about the artistry of his routines; having his parents (former Olympic skaters Roman Skorniakov and Tatiana Malinina) as coaches; and landing a quad axel.
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| 0:27.6 | This is Jane Pauli. He's known as the Quad God. Figure skater Elyiam |
| 0:43.9 | Malanin is heading for the Olympics as a gold medal favorite. He's on the ice with Sunday |
| 0:50.1 | morning's Jonathan Vigliotti. Quad God. Where does that come from? |
| 0:56.0 | This is more like a funny, interesting story, so I guess it comes from, |
| 1:01.0 | so I landed my first quad, which is a quad sal at around 13 to 14. |
| 1:09.0 | Wow. |
| 1:10.0 | And I wanted to change my name on Instagram first, like my Instagram handle. |
| 1:14.2 | And I was like, oh, I landed a quad first. |
| 1:16.0 | So quad god, there it is. |
| 1:17.7 | Okay, let's put it in. |
| 1:18.9 | And then I never really thought about it deeply. |
| 1:21.5 | Like, oh, it's just a username. |
| 1:23.7 | And from there, everyone's like, why did you name yourself quad god? |
| 1:26.8 | You only have one quad. |
| 1:29.6 | And I'm like, well, now that I think about it, maybe I should try to land all of them to get the Quad God status. |
| 1:38.6 | So in a name, you set a bar for yourself that you then not only met but exceeded. |
| 1:45.0 | Yes. |
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