 At the 2010 Winter Olympics , Lysacek placed second in the short program , with a score of 90 @.@ 30 . He won the free skate with a score of 167 @.@ 37 and won the gold medal overall with a total score of 257 @.@ 67 , a margin of 1 @.@ 31 over silver medalist Evgeni Plushenko . He became the first American to win the Olympic title in men 's singles since Brian Boitano in 1988 , and the first reigning world champion to win since Scott Hamilton in 1984 . 
