Malinin falters, Shaidorov claims gold

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In the downhill, Lindsey Vonn broke her tibia. She now talks about her recovery. And: Germany's ski jumpers vent their frustration. It's not just about their results. The Olympic Day is covered in a live blog.

Anatomy of an upset: how Ilia Malinin lost Olympic figure skating gold

Ilia Malinin entered the Olympic free skate as the runaway favorite. Early mistakes triggered a meltdown that laid bare the brutal math of modern figure skating What made Ilia Malinin’s Olympic defeat so shocking was not simply his years-long dominance entering Friday night. It was how completely the competition had tilted in his favor before he even stepped on the ice. For nearly three years, Malinin had been men’s skating’s guiding light: unbeaten since late 2023, winner of back-to-back world titles, the skater who recalibrated the sport’s technical ceiling and then made winning look procedural. He arrived at the Milano Ice Skating Arena leading by more than five points after the short program and carrying the most difficult planned program in the field. Under almost any normal competitive logic, that combination should have been decisive. Continue reading. . .

Fall of the Quad God: Ilia Malinin finds he is all too human under the Olympic spotlight

The brilliant American was expected to glide to a gold medal on Friday. It was tough to watch such a gifted athlete discover the ruthlessness of his sport By the time Ilia Malinin reached the closing stretch of his Olympic free skate, the outcome was no longer really the story. The story was the expression on his face - not panic, not shock, but the dawning realization that a destiny he had controlled for nearly three years had slipped beyond his reach in the blinding span of four and a half catastrophic minutes. For the rising generation of men’s skaters, the 21-year-old Malinin has existed less as a rival than as a moving technical horizon. The Quad God . The skater who built programs around jumps others still treated as theory, who pushed the sport into something closer to applied physics. Much like Simone Biles, who took in Friday’s contest from the Milano Ice Skating Arena’s VIP seats, his only competition was himself. Continue reading. . .

Took Olympic gold after drama: – That woman is crazy!

In her first Olympic Games, the 22-year-old from Stryn climbed to the very top of the podium.

Malinin's Olympic routine: The fall of the 'Quad God'

Ilia Malinin is regarded as the world's best figure skater. But at the Olympic Games the gifted prodigy experiences a seemingly endless string of moments of failure - overwhelmed by the enormous pressure.

Olympics 2026: Ilia Malinin's figure skating drama — the young god has fallen

He was set to be the big star of the Winter Games, the 'quad God,' the overwhelming favorite in figure skating. But in the free skate, everything became too much for the 21-year-old Ilia Malinin.

Malinin, dall'oro più atteso alla caduta sul ghiaccio: le lacrime del dio dei quadrupli tornato umano

Took Olympic gold after drama: – That woman is crazy

In her first Olympics of her career, the 22-year-old from Stryn will rise to the top of the podium.

Took Olympic gold after drama: 'That woman is crazy!'

In the career's first Olympics, the 22-year-old from Stryn is set to reach the top of the podium.

Fallen Malinin laments the 'Olympic Curse' after the disaster

New Olympic champion Shaidorov sparked a Kazakh milestone in figure skating. "Ice is slippery," says the champion.

Olympics 2026: Ilia Malinin's figure skating drama - the young god has fallen

He was supposed to be the big star of the Winter Games, the 'quadruple god,' the overwhelming favorite in figure skating. It was the free skate that proved too much for the 21-year-old Ilia Malinin.

Ilia Malinin: An ice debacle shocks the entire sports world

Ilia Malinin revolutionized figure skating—and botched his Olympic short program.

Olympics 2026: 'Unacceptable', 'Nightmare', 'a total demolition', the USA stunned after Ilia Malinin's fiasco

The United States were trying to understand how the skating prodigy had so completely missed his program on Friday night.

Figure skating: The Black Day of the Ice Prince

For two years Ilia Malinin had been undefeated; he is the only skater to master the world's most difficult jump. But in Milan his program shatters like glass. "I screwed it up," he says—and he tries to find an explanation.