Ilia Malinin misses Olympic podium after falls in free skate

In a shocking twist astatine the 2026 Winter Olympics, American fig skater Ilia Malinin didn't marque it to the podium connected Friday, failing to medal aft falling doubly during the escaped skate. Kazakhstan's Mikhail Shaidorov took location the gold.

Malinin, known arsenic the "Quad God," looked visibly affectional aft his skate.

The 21-year-old, who led by a comfy borderline aft the abbreviated program, simply had to present a mediocre show to adhd idiosyncratic golden to the golden medal helium won successful the squad event. Instead, helium was trying to combat backmost tears aft 1 of the worst nights of his career, 1 that near a star-packed assemblage wrong Milano Ice Arena sitting successful stunned silence.

Shaidorov finished with a career-best 291.58 points to springiness his federation its archetypal golden medal of the Winter Games, portion Yuma Kagiyama earned his 2nd consecutive Olympic metallic medal and Japanese teammate Shun Sato took bronze.

Then determination was Malinin, who fell each the mode to eighth place. He finished with 264.49 points, ending a two-plus-year unbeaten streak that covered 14 afloat competitions, including the past 2 satellite championships that helium won with ease.

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