World champion Ilia Malinin won his third straight Skate America title Sunday, adjusting on the fly after a mid-routine mistake to hold off France's Kevin Aymoz at the first Grand Prix event of the season.
Self-styled "Quad God" Malinin doubled one of the four planned quadruple jumps in his free skate — then calmly added an extra quadruple Salchow-triple Axel late in his routine to score 190.43 points for a winning total of 290.12.
"I'm completely shocked," Malinin said. "I don't know what just happened. I just went full autopilot through there."
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