Gold goes to the wrong skater, then gets a laughing handover
Mindova's podium clip drew about 4.9 million views since yesterday, following a medal mix-up the skaters quickly put right.
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They Handled It Perfectly 😂❤️
The skater on the second-place step has something that belongs next door: the gold medal. An official has put it around her neck, and it takes a nudge from the third-place skater to draw her attention to the mistake.
Mindova's short edit follows the realization and the laughing handover. She checks the medal, lifts it off and places it around the first-place skater's neck herself. No dialogue is audible; the captions supply an imagined conversation over Ravyn Lenae's "Love Me Not" and cartoon sound effects.
Mindova is sharing someone else's ceremony footage, rather than filming its own sporting event. The appeal is in how little fuss the correction requires: by the end, the skaters are laughing together and briefly holding hands on the podium.
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Where next?
- Channel
- Mindova
- Subscribers
- 2,480,000 ▲ 160,000 this week
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 296,172,155
- Channel views, pace per day
- 14,419,710 (on a normal day: 45,432,788)
- Video published
- November 2, 2026
- Video views so far
- 6,207,835 (2 days online)
- Video views, pace per day
- 4,859,949 (on a normal day: 2,128,859)
The numbers
The podium clip added nearly five million views since yesterday. Its opening-day comments also came in more than three times faster than usual for Mindova's Shorts.
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