MILAN — Well, Ilia Malinin came here to do what no man had ever done before. He did it. He arrived at these Olympics as a heavy favorite, and by the time he skated out for his free skate Friday night, he had the gold medal on a silver platter. France’s Adam Siao Him Fa had stumbled his way to seventh place. Japan’s Yuma Kagiyama was uneven and plopped down in second. Kazakhstan’s Mikhail Shaidorov was in first place, and even he couldn’t believe it—when Kagiyama’s score posted, a stunned Shaidorov looked like he wanted to drug-test himself.
As Malinin got into his starting pose, all he had to do was …
