Ilia Malinin stumbled under Olympic pressure as underdog Mikhail Shaidorov captured gold in a shocking Olympic men’s figure skating final at Milano-Cortina 2026.

Craziest of all was when American hotshot Ilia Malinin finished in eighth place after Friday’s free skate — a “Game of Thrones” “Red Wedding” on ice.

Figure skating fans are not happy with the Olympic ice quality that saw over a dozen men fall during the free skate finale.

Mikhail Shaidorov became Kazakhstan’s first Olympic gold medallist in men’s figure skating after triumphing at the Milano Cortina Winter Olympics 2026.View on euronews

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The figure skating community described the shock they felt watching Ilia Malinin’s mistake-ridden performance Friday night, trying to help fans understand how the sport's most dominant athlete performed so far below expectations.

In one of the biggest upsets of the 2026 Olympic Winter Games in Milan/Cortina d’Ampezzo, Kazakhstan’s Mikhail Shaidorov won the gold medal. The gold for Shaidorov was completely unexpected. This was Kazakhstan’s first medal of the 2026 Olympic Winter Games.

The best male skaters in the world are set to compete for hardware, as the Men’s Free Skate takes center stage on Friday. Figure skating has long been a staple of the Winter Games program. From the early days of elegant skating,

MyKayla Skinner criticizes Olympic judges after Madison Chock and Evan Bates lost controversial ice dance gold to French rivals at Winter Games.