Ilia Malinin will carry his lead into the second half of the men's competition on Friday
From the astonishing to the emotional to the downright bizarre, the Olympic figure skating men's short program on Tuesday night had it all.
But the star once again was the USA's Ilia Malinin, who stormed to the top of the leaderboard with a stunning routine featuring a quad flip and quad lutz - two of the hardest techniques in the sport.
Although he did not quite land the quad axel which has earned him the nickname 'Quad God', it put him top of the short program with a score of 108.16.
And unlike in the team event, where he made errors and was somewhat style over substance, this was an ominously clean routine from the 21-year-old – and he even threw in a backflip for good measure.
