Anastasia PaninaSport correspondentAll materialsThe other day, a video of a clean quadruple axel from Ilya Malinin, an American figure skater with Russian roots, appeared on social networks. Sport understands the uniqueness and danger of the most difficult jump, the obsession with which prevented the great Japanese Yuzuru Hanyu from winning the third Olympic gold, and which a 17-year-old boy did so effortlessly. Until recently, the quadruple axel in figure skating was something like a terrible magician Volde Mort from Harry Potter. An invincible unattainable evil, which only a few tried to overcome, and one young man even made victory over him the meaning of his life — we are, of course, talking about the two-time Olympic champion Yuzuru Hanyu. Another funny parallel to Voldemort is that you can't call a quad axel. That is, for the double and triple axel there are short, almost official replacements for «snipe» and «trixel», but for the quadruple — nothing. Perhaps the new-language «quaxel», but this, you see, somehow sounds disrespectful for the most complex element, on which more than one ankle will be broken and more than one head will be smashed.
