MILAN \u2014 A South Florida figure skater is making his mark at the Winter Games, while Florida Panthers fans are exploring Milan ahead of their team’s upcoming games.<\/p>\n
WPTV’s anchor Mike Trim and Meghan McRoberts are there for all the action! <\/a><\/p>\n WATCH BELOW: WPTV speaks with Andrew Torgashev’s father in Milan<\/p>\n WPTV speaks with Andrew Torgashev’s father in Milan<\/p>\n Andrew Torgashev of Coral Springs<\/a> placed 8th out of 29 competitors in the men’s singles short program during his Team USA debut Tuesday, scoring a personal best of 88.84 points.<\/a> The figure skater will compete in the free skating portion of the competition on Friday.<\/p>\n Torgashev grew up skating at the same ice rink as the Florida Panthers, trained by his father, Artem, from an early age.<\/p>\n McRoberts spoke with Artem on Tuesday to get his thoughts on this massive moment.<\/p>\n “I was training him in South Florida since he was born,” Artem Torgashev said. “I’m not just cheering him as a parent. I can see every single move, every single jump he’s making. I know what’s going to happen in the next couple of seconds, so that’s a little tougher.”<\/p>\n America’s Ilia Malinin currently leads the men’s singles competition.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, South Floridians and Panthers fans are already arriving in Milan to explore the city before hockey action begins. The beautiful Italian city offers numerous attractions, from the 15th-century Castello Sforzesco fortress to the expansive Parco Sempione park.<\/p>\n Visitors can enjoy panoramic city views from the Branca Tower, shop at boutique stores in Piazza Cordusio, and experience world-class shopping at the famous Duomo Plaza. The city also offers abundant Italian cuisine, including pizza, pasta, risotto and other local specialties.<\/p>\n Men’s hockey begins Wednesday with Team USA taking the ice against Latvia at 3:10 p.m. Thursday.<\/p>\n This story was reported on-air by a journalist and has been converted to this platform with the assistance of AI. Our editorial team verifies all reporting on all platforms for fairness and accuracy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MILAN \u2014 A South Florida figure skater is making his mark at the Winter Games, while Florida Panthers…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":454764,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5102],"tags":[55256,21567,62,57,5141,5,3078,4,63,55139,2868],"class_list":["post-454763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida-panthers","tag-andrew-torgashev","tag-figure-skating","tag-florida","tag-florida-panthers","tag-floridapanthers","tag-hockey","tag-ice-skating","tag-nhl","tag-panthers","tag-panthers-in-milan","tag-skating"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116053841271120276","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=454763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454763\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/454764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=454763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=454763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}