Ilia Malinin flew to D.C. on Monday after the national championships in Wichita and knew that young skaters were on the plane ...

Winter Olympics a year away, Chloe Kim and Mikaela Shiffrin are aiming for history, while Lindsey Vonn and Lolo Jones eye ...

Malinin, 20, flew home from the national championships ... He and Malinina moved to Northern Virginia and became coaches before Ilia was born. Ilia took the Russian masculine form of his mother ...

Also on the flight were Russian-born coaches and former 1994 pairs ... Sunday in the men’s competition won by Malinin, flying home Monday. Ilia and his parents have much in common with Maxim ...

The Olympic Games are a family tradition for the 20-year-old from Virginia, whose parents were both Olympians for Uzbekistan.