{"id":66324,"date":"2026-02-13T17:57:39","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T22:57:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/13\/ilia-malinin-falls-twice-as-kazakhstans-shaidorov-stuns-field-for-olympic-gold\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T17:57:39","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T22:57:39","slug":"ilia-malinin-falls-twice-as-kazakhstans-shaidorov-stuns-field-for-olympic-gold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/13\/ilia-malinin-falls-twice-as-kazakhstans-shaidorov-stuns-field-for-olympic-gold\/","title":{"rendered":"Ilia Malinin falls twice as Kazakhstan\u2019s Shaidorov stuns field for Olympic gold"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Heavy US favorite falls twice in the free skate<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Kazakhstan\u2019s Mikhail Shaidorov claims shock title<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For nearly two years, Ilia Malinin has made men\u2019s figure skating feel predictable in the most spectacular of ways. On Friday night on the southern outskirts of Milan, the Olympic Games reminded the sport \u2013 and perhaps Malinin himself \u2013 that predictability is never guaranteed on its biggest stage.<\/p>\n<p>The overwhelming favorite entering the free skate, the 21-year-old American instead saw the Olympic title slip away to Kazakhstan\u2019s Mikhail Shaidorov after an error-strewn performance that will rank among the biggest upsets in modern figure skating history.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/feb\/13\/ilia-malinin-olympics-figure-skating-mikhail-shaidorov\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heavy US favorite falls twice in the free skate Kazakhstan\u2019s Mikhail Shaidorov claims shock title For nearly two years, Ilia Malinin has made men\u2019s figure skating feel predictable in the most spectacular of ways. On Friday night on the southern outskirts of Milan, the Olympic Games reminded the sport \u2013 and perhaps Malinin himself \u2013 &#8230; <a title=\"Ilia Malinin falls twice as Kazakhstan\u2019s Shaidorov stuns field for Olympic gold\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/13\/ilia-malinin-falls-twice-as-kazakhstans-shaidorov-stuns-field-for-olympic-gold\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Ilia Malinin falls twice as Kazakhstan\u2019s Shaidorov stuns field for Olympic gold\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66324\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}