At 9:49 a.m. Friday, Madison Felton texted her three friends with the good news.
“I secured the seats,” Felton’s message read.
Eight hours later before Ilia Malinin took the ice to perform in the free skate at the 2026 Winter Olympics, Felton reserved a second-row table front and center of the big screen on the first floor at George Mason University’s Johnson Center to ensure she and her fellow juniors, Cassie Baker, Emma Bernstein and Kierstin Strassburg, were properly positioned to watch their fellow student go for the gold…