For Ilia Malinin, Amber Glenn and Alysa Liu, Olympic gala is about messaging, with some fun

MILAN — Ilia Malinin’s life these past couple of days has been a tornado of text messages and social media commentary, with all those nagging pings, beeps and notifications. So when he performed at the Olympic figure skating exhibition gala Saturday night, he brought all those pings, beeps and notifications right out to the sheet with him. It was as if we were seeing and hearing what Malinin had been seeing and hearing in the hours and days after he delivered a free skate so full of mistakes tha