Malinin wins fair play award for his grace in defeat to Shaidorov at Winter Olympics

American figure skater Ilia Malinin was awarded the Milan Cortina Olympics fair play award on Thursday for his sportsmanship after finishing off the podium. In one of the biggest upsets in figure skating history, the 21-year-old Malinin fell twice and made other big mistakes in the free skate and Kazakh Mikhail Shaidorov won the men's gold medal. Malinin later said the pressure leading up to the event and the abuse he received online was unbearable.

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