All three U.S. men's figure skaters are moving on to the free skate final after Wednesday's qualifying round at the Winter Olympics. The event saw the "Quad God" Ilia Malinin leading the pack of

Ilia Malinin is not like most figure skaters. Even when he makes mistakes, he is still so far ahead of the rest that he wins Olympic gold.

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.

Rafael Arutyunyan, the coach who mentored "Quad King" Nathan Chen is also the coach to "Quad God" Ilia Malinin. Meet the Irvine-based "Quad Maker."