Righto, what a night that was. I’m goosed and have barely moved off my sofa for the last four hours never mind trained every day for four years.
We’ll be back tomorrow for more Winter Olympic drama, there’s nothing like it. Congratulations to the medal winners and commiserations to those that missed out.
Goodnight.
Updated
Men’s Figure Skating Final: Shaidorov’s win should be celebrated. He skated brilliantly. He may be Malinin’s rival for years to come.
But it’ll be impossible to remember this event as anything other than a catastrophe for the world’s best skater over the past three years by a wide margin.
The flip side is that Malinin came through in the team event, which means several US skaters will leave Italy with gold medals. That may be of little consolation at the moment.
No other sporting event has the drama of the Olympics. Not the World Cup, where the players all immediately turn around and return to lucrative and high-profile professional careers. Only here. When it goes well, it’s enthralling. In this case, it’s heartbreaking.
