UNILAD has reached out to the vice president’s office for comment.After Vance was jeered at the opening ceremony, IOC spokesperson Mark Adams said at a press conference: « What I would say from the IOC point of view is with the next Games coming up in Los Angeles, we are super happy that the US administration is so engaged with the Games here and going forward. That’s a great thing for the Olympic movement.
“We are largely a sports organisation and seeing the US team cheered as they were by the audience, fair play, that was fantastic, so very happy.
« In general at sporting events we like to see fair play, but in terms of having a good relationship with the administration, that’s good news for us.”
Ilia Malinin is set to take on the most difficult ice skating move in the Winter Olympics on Friday (February 13).
The Team USA star already made history at the Milano Cortina Winter Games by performing the first legal backflip on Olympic ice in 50 years.
Backflips were banned in 1976 after American skater Terry Kubicka landed the risky move at the Innsbruck Winter Games.
The ban remained in place for decades, though French skater Surya Bonaly famously performed an illegal backflip at the 1998 Nagano Olympics, receiving a deduction for it.
In 2024, the long-standing prohibition was finally lifted.
Now, Ilia has his sights set on another historic goal during the men’s free skate on Friday.The 21-year-old is poised to perform a quad axel – a figure skating jump that requires the skater to complete four and a half rotations in the air before landing.
« I’m hoping that I’ll feel good enough to do it [on Friday], » he told reporters, via Fox News, earlier this week.
« But, of course, I always prioritize health and safety, so I really want to put myself in the right mindset where I’ll feel really confident to go into it and not have that as something that I’m going to risk. »
