Malinin and Sakamoto seek solace at figure skating worlds as Olympic champions absent

French ice dancers Guillaume Cizeron and Laurence Fournier Beaudry are the only Olympic figure skating champions competing in Prague a month after the Milan-Cortina Games. Olympic men's champion Mikhail Shaidorov and women's gold medallist Alysa Liu are both skipping the final event of the season. Kazakh Shaidorov pulled off one of the biggest shocks of the Winter Olympics as highly-fancied Malinan fell to his first defeat in over two years. The 21-year-old, known as the "Quad God" for his quadruple-jumping skills...