“A 21-YEAR-OLD JUST DID SOMETHING IN TIMES SQUARE THAT SHOULDN’T BE PHYSICALLY POSSIBLE.” Ilia Malinin stepped onto the ice in the middle of Times Square — and did something that made the entire crowd go quiet. A quad axel. Clean. Then his signature “raspberry twist” — a full somersault that looks like it breaks every law of physics. He’s 21 years old. The video exploded online, racing toward nearly 1 million views. Comments kept saying the same thing — “I forgot he was human for a second.” And honestly? Watching the clip, it’s hard to argue. But what’s getting people even more obsessed isn’t just the move itself. It’s the story behind how it happened — a detail that makes the whole thing hit different.
Ilia Malinin: The Skater Redefining the Limits of Figure Skating American figure skater Ilia Malinin is rapidly becoming one of…