Ilia Malinin Fan Thread!

[Laura4]

Poor kid! The pressure simply got to him. I always thought he should've been sent to Beijing instead of Adam Rippon. I understand using the body of work as criteria for certain skaters, but Rippon was never going to get on the Olympic podium. And the U.S. had a talented young gun with the potential to do well at those Games plus gain some valuable experience that might have served to benefit him in these Games. It was a missed opportunity by the U.S. in my opinion.

 

[Baby Yoda On Skates]

Adam went in 2018 over Ross Miner. It was Jason Brown who got the 3rd spot 4 years ago.

 

[Allskate]

I always thought he should've been sent to Beijing instead of Adam Rippon. I understand using the body of work as criteria for certain skaters, but Rippon was never going to get on the Olympic podium.

Definitely true because Adam Rippon wasn't in Beijing.

I think that Beijing is an easy target for Ilia and others to blame. For his own sake, I hope Ilia looks for additional reasons and doesn't just assume that he'll be fine next time since he has Olympic experience. He needs tools to deal with the massive expectations and pressure placed on him by others as well as the massive expectations and pressure he placed on himself. Seven quads, including a quad loop and quad axel, within days of the TE, at the Olympics was a lot.

Kagiyama has been to the Olympics before and was a mess today. Having Olympic experience didn't save Simone Biles from an Olympic implosion or Mikaela Shiffrin. The amount of pressure he was under this past week is nothing like he would have experienced four years ago.

 

[Debbie S]

Poor kid! The pressure simply got to him. I always thought he should've been sent to Beijing instead of Adam Rippon. I understand using the body of work as criteria for certain skaters, but Rippon was never going to get on the Olympic podium. And the U.S. had a talented young gun with the potential to do well at those Games plus gain some valuable experience that might have served to benefit him in these Games. It was a missed opportunity by the U.S. in my opinion.

Adam competed at the 2018 Olys and then retired. He did not compete in Beijing. You are probably thinking of Jason Brown?