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Ilia Malinin reclaimed momentum to lead the Olympic men’s short program, steadying the ice as Americans Andrew Torgashev and Maxim Naumov delivered breakout, emotional debuts to advance to the free skate.
Kazakhstan's Mikhail Shaidorov emerged as the shock winner of the men's competition at the Milano Cortina Games on Friday as heavy favourite Ilia Malinin's free programme fell apart and he finished out of the medals in one of Olympic figure skating's biggest upsets.
Team USA figure skater Ilia Malinin, known as the “Quad God,” will compete for the gold in the men’s free skate finals of the 2026 Milan Cortina Olympics on Friday, Feb. 13.
Ilia "QuadGod" Malinin will take on the Milan ice rink one last time these Olympics to work for a gold medal in the men's single skating competition.
And his teammates also had the skates of their lives, with Maxim Naumov competing in memory of his parents