MILAN, Feb 14 : U.S. Olympic greats including Scott Hamilton and Apolo Ohno offered words of encouragement to figure skater Ilia Malinin on Saturday after his disastrous performance on his Games debut.The 21-year-old American double world champion and red-hot favourite finished eighth after a free programme o

(corrects to four-times world champion Browning in paragraph 14)By Lori EwingMILAN, Feb 14 : U.S. Olympic greats including Scott Hamilton and Apolo Ohno offered words of encouragement to figure skater Ilia Malinin on Saturday after his disastrous performance on his Games debut.The 21-year-old A

MILAN, Feb 13 : The pressure had been building, the glare of Olympic expectation, the scrutiny of a sport that demands not only athletic precision but artistic perfection. And on Friday, all of it came crashing down on Ilia Malinin.The American phenom, considered virtually untouchable and a near-certain gold