When Alysa Liu and Ilia Malinin stepped onto the ice together at the 2026 Winter Olympic exhibition, it was meant to be light. Playful. A pressure-free encore after medals had already been won and lost. Instead, it became the moment no one has stopped replaying. From the first beat, their timing felt almost telepathic. They jumped in perfect sync, rotated with mirror precision, and landed so cleanly it barely looked choreographed. Midway through the program, they met at center ice
When Alysa Liu and Ilia Malinin stepped onto the ice together at the 2026 Winter Olympic exhibition, it was meant to be light. Playful. A pressure-free encore after medals had already been won and lost. Instead, it became the moment no one has stopped replaying. From the first beat, their timing felt almost telepathic. They jumped in perfect sync, rotated with mirror precision, and landed so cleanly it barely looked choreographed. Midway through the program, they met at center ice

When Alysa Liu and Ilia Malinin stepped onto the ice together at the 2026 Winter Olympic exhibition, it was meant to be light. Playful. A pressure-free encore after medals had already been won and lost. Instead, it became the moment no one has stopped replaying. From the first beat, their timing felt almost telepathic. They jumped in perfect sync, rotated with mirror precision, and landed so cleanly it barely looked choreographed. Midway through the program, they met at center ice

 

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The top figure skaters from the 2026 Winter Olympics performed one last time at the Games during the exhibition gala on Saturday.

Americans Ilia Malinin, Alysa Liu, Amber Glenn and ice dance team Madison Chock and Evan Bates were among the stars that delivered stellar final skates while others performed more light-hearted routines, including Kazakhstan’s Mikhail Shaidorov, who took the ice in his iconic panda suit.

There was no judging and there were no medals on the line, just another opportunity for these superb skaters to entertain as they have done throughout the Milan Cortina Games.

Catch up on the final skates from Milan with Sports Illustrated’s live blog on the gala:

 

 

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