It wasn’t vintage “Quad God.” But even a B-level performance from Ilia Malinin is better than anyone else in the world. The Olympic figure skating team event came down to the American Malinin and Shun Sato from Japan — whoever got the higher score in their free skate would win their country the gold medal.  And Malinin acted like a closer to seal the deal.  Malinin, though he slipped once, recorded a score of 200.03 to put the U.S. in the lead, with just Sato and Japan to go. Sato had a