American was favourite for gold but finished eighth
Video hints that experience may be used in routine
Ilia Malinin has written about “an inevitable crash” after he missed the podium at the Winter Olym…
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Anatomy of an upset: how Ilia Malinin lost Olympic figure skating gold ○
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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…
Fall of the Quad God: Ilia Malinin finds he is all too human under the Olympic spotlight ⊕⊕
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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 …
Ilia Malinin falls twice as Kazakhstan’s Shaidorov stuns field for Olympic gold ⊕
Heavy US favorite falls twice in the free skate
Kazakhstan’s Mikhail Shaidorov claims shock title
For nearly two years, Ilia Malinin has made men’s figure skating feel predictable in the most spectacul…
Shaidorov wins gold as 'Quad God' Malinin crumbles ⊕
Ilia Malinin, the red-hot favourite for men's figure skating gold, suffers a nightmare on the ice.
16 days ago
Quality sports coverage matters – now more than ever ○
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With human sporting dramas fighting for space amid the geopolitics, the Winter Olympics are a reminder that the essence of sport remains noble and valid
The Guardian’s sports coverage is different – a…
US skater's incredible backwards somersault stuns Winter Olympics crowd... but it's literally flipping pointless because judges won't recognise it! ○
Ilia Malinin, 21, delivered a crucial performance in Milan on Sunday night, packing his routine with trademark quadruple jumps before punctuating it with a dramatic backflip.
Malinin, Minion and Milan's most emotional moment ○
From the astonishing to the emotional to the downright bizarre, the 2026 Olympic figure skating men’s short program on Tuesday night had it all.
17 days ago
The messy Quad God and kitchen blender set to be an Olympic superstar ○
Ilia Malinin is not like most figure skaters. Even when he makes mistakes, he is still so far ahead of the rest that he wins Olympic gold.
18 days ago
Ilia Malinin holds off resurgent Japan to seal repeat US team figure skating gold ⊕
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Malinin delivers to secure US Olympic team gold win
Japan pairs skating brilliance pushes US team to limit
Host Italy secure team bronze on home Olympic rink
The United States held off a late charge fro…