Ilia Malinin’s Olympic CollapseAnd The Heartbreaking Reason His Mom Wasn’t There.
After having a nightmare free skate performance in the men’s figure skating competition at the Winter Olympic Games, he could only watch on as he went from a 99% favorite to win before the night started to finishing in eighth. His father and coach, Roman Skorniakov, sat beside Malinin and comforted his son in his…