American Ilia Malinin stunningly fell short of winning his first individual Olympic gold medal on Friday night. In fact, he missed the podium altogether.
Malinin finished eighth in the men’s figure skating competition despite being the clear leader after the short program. He scored just 156.33 in the free skate and 264.49 in total, bowing out of the Milan Cortina Olympics in devastating fashion. Kazakhstan’s Mikhail Shaidorov took home gold instead, while Japan’s Yuma Kagiyama and Shun Sato won silver and bronze, respectively.
