Malinin is the son of two Russian-born Olympic figure skaters, Tatiana Malinina and Roman Skorniakov, who competed for Uzbekistan at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan, and the 2002 Olympics in Salt Lake City. They later moved to Virginia, where Ilia was born in 2004. He started skating at age 6.

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Four years ago, Chloe Kim decided to step away from snowboarding. The U.S. star made the hard decision shortly after winning a second straight gold medal at the halfpipe competition of the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing.