2026 Olympics: Men's Free Skate

[moonvine]

Ilia, please take a leaf out of Nathan Chens book when he had a meltdown in 2018 and came back 4 years later and became the Olympic champion. RISE LIKE A PHOENIX ‍

Yes! He’s young and has time. It’ll keep him hungry.

 

[readernick]

That was shocking. Never proclaim a champion before the event. I don't think Shun was robbed in the team event but he was kind of robbed here. Given the skates, he should have higher PCS and a silver medal imho. Anyway, the Olympics is always different.

 

[Tulips]

Wow! Shocking. There are no words.

 

[YuBluByMe]

At work. Just saw the results. I'd this a joke?

Nope, but it does look like fan fiction, doesn’t it?

 

[lariko]

Well, this is a disaster for Malinin and unfair score for Kagiyama, but Shaidorov won gold, Sato won bronze, Cha's in 4th, Gogolev is 5th and Gumennik 6th. Malinin delivered plenty great results, but not today, unfortunately.

 

[bartlebooth]

Denis Ten would be proud.

 

[FlossieH]

I hope the media leave Ilia alone, but I fear they won't...

 

[nickp91]

We just witnessed a second Sarah Hughes moment in Olympic figure skating.

 

[freedomlover]

I thought Shun deserved a medal but not like this

ykw he got f**ked over enough this season. Sad for Ilia, of course, but mannnnn.

 

[4everchan]

Nope, but it does look like fan fiction, doesn’t it?

Crazy stuff.

 

[snowflake]

Which one is happier, Misha or Shun?

haha what a roller coaster

 

[Placebo11]

Wow, I was sure that Mallinin would win on one leg. And now he's only 8th!!!

I'm so happy for Mikael.

This was the craziest competition I've ever watched.

 

[moonvine]

Bet I know who is carrying the flag for KAZ in the closing ceremony.

 

[skatedreamer]

Holy bleep. Ilia is going to have to do some hard thinking. I've felt for a while that his ego needed a little deflating, but not like this. Never, ever like this. And the expectations on him must have been insane.

It's incredible that he's not even on the podium.

 

[brens78]

Yuma now with 4 silvers! Very impressive!

 

[SmileHappy34]

Congrats michael shaidrov.
After this I hate to say. No one will trust ilia jumps again.
Should have done team. Yes did it affect no.
I think all his quad god talk did.
He didn't live up to his own hype

 

[Spiralgraph]

Similar to Nathan's first Olympics. Poor Ilya, but he will come back from this performance.

 

[bartlebooth]

Grassl says that he has food poisoning, he thought about withdrawing.

 

[Dreamer57]

Pressure, I guess.

I really hope something like this doesn't happen at worlds because if it does, the US isn't going to have two spots for next year.

Honestly they still need Ilia next month if they want to keep 2 spots

The menning in the final group, I can't believe it.

 

[GGFan]

Holy Moley Ilia....opening the door wide...it's like Nathan in Pyeongchang

This is worse. Nathan hadn’t won worlds yet. Yuzu was still the favorite. This was all set up for Ilia to win.