Ilia Malinin misses Olympic medal
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Ilia Malinin's vulnerable social media posts after his Olympic skating disappointment have fans worried, with the 21-year-old admitting "I blew it" following his eighth-place finish.
Malinin is the son of two Russian-born Olympic figure skaters, Tatiana Malinina and Roman Skorniakov, who competed for Uzbekistan at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan, and the 2002 Olympics in Salt Lake City. They later moved to Virginia, where Ilia was born in 2004. He started skating at age 6.
The team event gold medal came down to Ilia Malinin, and he put on a thrilling performance to secure the gold medal for Team USA.