Chock and Bates trail in Olympics ice dance event
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Figure skating star Alysa Liu delivered a 74.90-point short program to help Team USA win the gold medal in the Olympic figure skating team event Sunday night in Milan. The gold was one of Team USA’s first medals of the Milan Cortina Games and continued its success in the event after also winning the team title at the 2022 Olympics.
American wunderkind Ilia Malinin didn’t exactly deliver a knockout blow to the rest of the Olympic men’s figure skating field. He came close, though.
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American superstar and 2026 Olympic men's gold medal favorite Ilia Malinin peforms a backflip in his short program.
Men's figure skating favorite Ilia Malinin is widely tipped to break reigning champion Nathan Chen's world record score of 335.30 at the 2026 Winter Olympics. - Matthew Stockman/ On the men's side, "Quad God" Ilia Malinin and the world champion ice dance duo of Madison Chock and Evan Bates lead the charge for Team USA in figure skating.