{"id":37390,"date":"2025-03-30T15:09:31","date_gmt":"2025-03-30T15:09:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/30\/simone-biles-on-ice-ilia-malinin-shows-his-only-rival-is-perfection-itself-bryan-armen-graham\/"},"modified":"2025-03-30T15:09:31","modified_gmt":"2025-03-30T15:09:31","slug":"simone-biles-on-ice-ilia-malinin-shows-his-only-rival-is-perfection-itself-bryan-armen-graham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/30\/simone-biles-on-ice-ilia-malinin-shows-his-only-rival-is-perfection-itself-bryan-armen-graham\/","title":{"rendered":"Simone Biles on ice: Ilia Malinin shows his only rival is perfection itself | Bryan Armen Graham"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>America\u2019s Quad God lapped the field to win another world title with a record-tying six quadruple jumps, but his attention remains fixed on a standard just out of reach<\/p>\n<p>Ilia Malinin had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2025\/mar\/29\/ilia-malinin-figure-skating-world-championships\">just finished defending his world title<\/a> with another sensational performance including six quadruple jumps beneath the lights of a nearly sold-out TD Garden. But as he pounded the ice after his final pose, the gesture wasn\u2019t pure triumph like last year in Montreal. It was the frustration of a perfectionist falling short of a standard no one else is asking him to meet.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat was definitely because I didn\u2019t land all seven,\u201d the 20-year-old American said afterward. \u201cIt\u2019s still the one thing I want to accomplish \u2013 whether before the Olympics or sometime in my career \u2013 just to land them all and really maximize my technical ability, while also incorporating the rest of the program.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2025\/mar\/30\/ilia-malinin-quadruple-jumps-figure-skating-quad-go\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>America\u2019s Quad God lapped the field to win another world title with a record-tying six quadruple jumps, but his attention remains fixed on a standard just out of reach Ilia Malinin had just finished defending his world title with another sensational performance including six quadruple jumps beneath the lights of a nearly sold-out TD Garden. &#8230; <a title=\"Simone Biles on ice: Ilia Malinin shows his only rival is perfection itself | Bryan Armen Graham\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/30\/simone-biles-on-ice-ilia-malinin-shows-his-only-rival-is-perfection-itself-bryan-armen-graham\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Simone Biles on ice: Ilia Malinin shows his only rival is perfection itself | Bryan Armen Graham\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37390\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}