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 spectacular of ways. On Friday night on the southern outskirts of Milan, the Olympic Games reminded the sport, and perhaps Malinin himself, that predictability is never guaranteed on its biggest stage.
The overwhelming favorite entering the free skate, the 21-year-old American instead saw the Olympic title slip away to Kazakhstan’s Mikhail Shaidorov after an error-strewn performance that will go down among the biggest shocks in modern figure skating history. Continue reading...
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