Yevgeny Plushenko, a four-time Olympic medalist, said men’s figure skaters will be performing quadruple Axels in 10 years if the sport continues at its current rate, according to Russian news agency TASS.
In men’s skating, quadruple toe loops have been performed since the 1980s, quadruple Salchows since the 1990s and the first ratified quadruple Lutz was landed in competition in 2011.
Skaters have practiced quadruple loops, but they had not been landed in international competition as of July, according to icenetwork.com. Japanese 2010 Olympic bronze medalist Daisuke Takahashi attempted quadruple flips in 2010.