{"id":990,"date":"2026-02-28T23:47:41","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T23:47:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/freshora.xyz\/?p=990"},"modified":"2026-02-28T23:47:41","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T23:47:41","slug":"ilia-malinin-was-expected-to-leave-milan-with-multiple-golds-instead-his-fair-play-nomination-after-a-stunning-olympic-collapse-has-everyone-talking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freshora.xyz\/?p=990","title":{"rendered":"Ilia Malinin Was Expected to Leave Milan with Multiple Golds \u2014 Instead, His Fair Play Nomination After a Stunning Olympic Collapse Has Everyone Talking"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Ilia Malinin went into his first Winter\u00a0Olympics\u00a0as one of the top figure skaters in the world. Prior to Milano Cortina 2026, the USA star had brought home gold in the last two World Championships in Montreal and Boston. Not to forget his four-straight U.S. Championship wins from 2023 to 2026.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>At the 2026 Winter Olympics in Milan, Malinin got off to a strong start, helping the United States win gold in the team event alongside Alysa Liu, Amber Glenn, Madison Chock, Evan Bates, Ellie Kam and Danny O\u2019Shea. Malinin contributed 19 of the USA\u2019s 69 total points, helping his country narrowly edge Japan by one point and earn the first Olympic medal of his career.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Malinin\u2019s run in Milan continued a few days later at the men\u2019s singles event, looking to add to his medal count. He got off to a strong start in the short program, finishing with a 108.16 score, the highest of the day. However, Malinin\u2019s performance at the free skate was a disappointment, finishing with a total combined score of 264.49 and dropping him all the way to eighth, losing out on another medal.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"576\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/freshora.xyz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/LIKCGIf--576x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11\" style=\"width:111px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/freshora.xyz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/LIKCGIf--576x1024.jpg 576w, https:\/\/freshora.xyz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/LIKCGIf--169x300.jpg 169w, https:\/\/freshora.xyz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/LIKCGIf-.jpg 675w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ilia Malinin went into his first Winter\u00a0Olympics\u00a0as one of the top figure skaters in the world. Prior to Milano Cortina 2026, the USA star had brought home gold in the last two World Championships&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freshora.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freshora.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freshora.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freshora.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freshora.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=990"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/freshora.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":991,"href":"https:\/\/freshora.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990\/revisions\/991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freshora.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freshora.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freshora.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}