Malinin’s reign ends in Milan as Kazakhstan clinches men’s skating gold
Ilia Malinin, the sport’s self-styled ‘Quad God’, was upset in the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics men’s single skating final, snapping his two-and-a-half-year unbeaten run as Kazakhstan’s Mikhail Shaidorov won gold after Malinin faltered with falls and several incomplete quadruple jumps.