Ever see these Fb reels the place Mortal Kombat 1 modders attempt to dupe strangers into considering NetherRealm Studios added Shrek and Captain Jack Sparrow to their combating sport to decapitate each other? One thing alongside these traces capped off this yr’s determine skating competitors on the 2026 Winter Olympics in Milan as Sub-Zero, Deadpool and Kung Fu Panda squared off on the worldwide stage.
Kazakhstan skater Mikhail Shaidorov received the gold in males’s determine skating this yr, the primary from his nation to land that prize. He’s additionally the primary Olympic determine skater, ever, to greatest the Lin Kuei. In the course of the Exhibition Gala, the closing, non-competitive, usually foolish section, Shaidorov got here out on the ice dressed like Jack Black’s famed Dreamworks cartoon martial artist. There he danced to Carl Douglas’s “Kung Fu Combating,” doing a little pleasant sparring with Deadpool and Sub-Zero earlier than farting on them, the sound impact echoing within the enviornment of champions.
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— The Freelancer (@TehFreelancer) February 22, 2026
It wasn’t the one little bit of Disney on Ice goofiness this yr. Earlier pairs skated to “Cotton Eyed Joe” and “Macarena.” Georgia’s Luka Berulava, who was the one dressed like Sub-Zero, joined associate Anastasiia Metelkina (dressed like Kitana) for a routine to The Immortals’ famed Mortal Kombat theme. The 2 ended with the warbled, dazed stance Mortal Kombatants do forward of getting their intestines ripped out.
Evidently I’ve by no means been extra confused about IP rights on the Olympic video games. Earlier within the week, throughout aggressive performances, chaos brewed as a number of determine skaters, comparable to American gold medalist Amber Glenn, struggled to secure licensing to the music used for his or her performances. This included Spain’s Tomàs-Llorenç, who carried out dressed like a Minion. This blurred much more and even stranger when Czech skaters Katerina Mrazkova and Daniel Mrazek skated to an AI-generated track clearly leaning on samples from AC/DC. Nonetheless the legality shakes out, it’s clear that Fortnite-ification has already unfold to the Olympic village.
