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Ilia Malinin impressed even himself with a brilliant short program at the US Championships in St Louis on Thursday, electrifying the crowd and showing why he is the runaway favourite to take gold at next month's Olympics.

Malinin, 21, punched the air as spectators rose to their feet after he landed a quad flip, a quad Lutz-triple toe loop, and an audacious back flip.