The team everyone will be trying to catch is Japan’s Rikue Miura and Ryuichi Kihara. The duo posted the best scores in the Short Program and Free Skate, making them a favorite to capture gold this week. Time: 1:30 p.m. ET

The U.S. will feature two duos teams as the pairs begin their competition with the short program. Follow the results.

Japan’s Riku Miura and Ryuichi Kihara, the defending world champions, are the gold-medal favorites. They topped the standings in both the pairs short and free skate portions of the team event. Kam and O’Shea finished in fifth and fourth, respectively, and earned a personal-best score in the free skate.

Ilia Malinin failed to medal in the biggest surprise of the 2026 Winter Olympics to date. The two-time reigning world champion had a disastrous free skate in which he fell and failed to deliver on a handful of technical aspects.

Ilia Malinin missed out on a medal in a stunning and dramatic men's figure skating final at the Winter Olympics today. The 21-year-old American fell twice in his final free skate to score 156.33 and finish eighth as Mikhail Shaidorov of Kazakhstan won gold.

Alysa Liu quit figure skating at 16. After her return, she’s now an Olympic gold medalist. Here’s how the skater came back to the sport on her own terms.

Ilia Malinin stumbled under Olympic pressure as underdog Mikhail Shaidorov captured gold in a shocking Olympic men’s figure skating final at Milano-Cortina 2026.

Malinin’s incredible performance in the Free Skate on Sunday helped give the United States its second straight Olympic gold in the Team Event, narrowly squeaking by the strong Japanese squad. Kagiyama actually posted a better score than Malinin in the Short Program late last week.

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One by one, the skaters before him Friday night had problems of their own, falling on ice shared by speedskating that some lamented was not the best of surfaces. Italy's Daniel Grassl crashed out of podium contention, as did Adam Siao Him Fa of France.

In one of the biggest upsets of the 2026 Olympic Winter Games in Milan/Cortina d’Ampezzo, Kazakhstan’s Mikhail Shaidorov won the gold medal. The gold for Shaidorov was completely unexpected. This was Kazakhstan’s first medal of the 2026 Olympic Winter Games.