Pakistan, Feb. 9 -- US figure skating star Ilia Malinin was upstaged on his Olympic debut on Saturday as Japan's Yuma Kagiyama led the men's short programme in the team event to keep the pressure on defending champions the United States. The 21-year-old Malinin, a two-time world champion, was below his best in his medley from "The Lost Crown" video game, scoring 10.67 points less than Kagiyama, the Olympic individual silver medallist from Beijing 2022.

"I'm pretty happy with what I did because that's only 50 percent of my full potential," said Malinin.

"My team event was to focus on myself and how I feel just overall," he continued. "I wasn't expecting to go out here and win the competition that was not my goal here for the team event. ...