{"id":30808,"date":"2026-02-23T10:09:38","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T02:09:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=30808"},"modified":"2026-02-23T10:09:38","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T02:09:38","slug":"mortal-kombat-inspired-olympic-ice-skaters-unleash-fatality-and-friendship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=30808","title":{"rendered":"Mortal Kombat-Inspired Olympic Ice Skaters Unleash Fatality And Friendship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/a\/uploads\/screen_medium\/1837\/18375603\/4655337-mortalkombat1kitana.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A pair of skaters tested their might on the ice with an Mortal Kombat-inspired theme and became the first athletes in their country&#8217;s history to win a medal at the Winter Olympics.<\/p>\n<p>Georgia&#8217;s Anastasiia Metelkina and Luka Berulava brought their Mortal Kombat routine to the exhibition gala, with Metelkina dressed as Kitana and Berulava as Sub-Zero. Their performance was backed by The Immortals&#8217; &#8220;Techno Syndrome&#8221; from the original 1995 Mortal Kombat movie. Metelkina and Berulava recreated some of MK&#8217;s non-lethal moves, and included a Friendship and a Fatality. They ultimately won the silver medal in skating pairs.<\/p>\n<div data-embed-type=\"tweet\" data-src=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Olympics\/status\/2025308952288694489\" data-has-image=\"true\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\" data-mce-disable-toolbar=\"true\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The Gala performances are absolutely stunning! <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/MilanoCortina2026?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"noopener\">#MilanoCortina2026<\/a> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/FigureSkating?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"noopener\">#FigureSkating<\/a> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Rg40gEiNd8\">pic.twitter.com\/Rg40gEiNd8<\/a><\/p>\n<p>  \u2014 The Olympic Games (@Olympics) <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Olympics\/status\/2025308952288694489?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"noopener\">February 21, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote><\/div>\n<p>NBC hasn&#8217;t posted the footage from Metelkina and Berulava&#8217;s Olympic routine online, but the pair have shared their performance before, including at the ISU World Team Trophy event in Tokyo last year.<\/p>\n<p>Continue Reading at GameSpot<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/mortal-kombat-inspired-olympic-ice-skaters-unleash-fatality-and-friendship\/1100-6538338\/?ftag=CAD-01-10abi2f\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A pair of skaters tested their might on the ice with an Mortal Kombat-inspired theme and became the first athletes in their country&#8217;s history to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30809,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[16344,6331,2087,16341,3152,10580,16342,16343],"class_list":["post-30808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech-gadgets-reviews","tag-fatality","tag-friendship","tag-ice","tag-kombatinspired","tag-mortal","tag-olympic","tag-skaters","tag-unleash","wpcat-32-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30808\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/30809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}