For at least a decade, the quadruple axel jump was figure skating’s white whale. “It’s been this unreachable thing, like the four-minute mile” once was, says Matthew Lind, a technical specialist for U ...

American Ilia Malinin has raised the tantalising prospect of debuting a quintuple jump at the Milano Cortina Olympics, in what would be a seismic breakthrough in the sport.

BEIJING—The idea of a quintuple jump in figure skating—five rotations in the air—has always seemed so outlandish that scientists actually said it was probably impossible. It didn't seem possible for a ...

In an interview with TASS Maxim Belyavsky said he executed this new element on the next training day after he tried it for the first time and failed MOSCOW, April 25. /TASS/. Russian 12-year-old ...