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For decades, it was considered the holy grail of figure skating, a jump so difficult, so daring, so completely defiant of the laws of physics that nobody would ever land it—until the quadruple axel was conquered by a young American who calls himself the Quad God. His real name is Ilia Malinin. And that name is everywhere this Olympics. The 21-year old from Northern Virginia comes into the Milan Cortina Olympics as one of Team USA’s biggest stars. Since mastering the quad axel, he has continued t