When Ilia Malinin’s score was displayed on screen at the end of his free skate on Friday, no one could believe what they saw.

U.S. figure skating superstar Ilia Malinin will not take home an individual gold medal from the Milan Cortina Games after a shocking performance in the men’s free skate Friday night, slipping off the podium entirely after he entered as the heavy gold-medal favorite.

Malinin is the son of two Russian-born Olympic figure skaters, Tatiana Malinina and Roman Skorniakov, who competed for Uzbekistan at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan, and the 2002 Olympics in Salt Lake City. They later moved to Virginia, where Ilia was born in 2004. He started skating at age 6.

Ilia Malinin tumbled out of medal contention after two falls, as Kazakhstan’s Mikhail Shaidorov claimed Olympic gold.

Ovechkin, who wears yellow laces himself, gifted yellow laces to Malinin ahead of the Olympics, and the American gold medalist has worn them in training sessions despite them not yet being visible during Olympic competitions.

The best skater in history plans today four quadruples and a backward somersault. Ilia Malinin was 17 years old when he was excluded from the US figure skating team for the Beijing 2022 Olympics in favor of the more experienced Jason Brown,