“The Quad God” Ilia Malinin joins TODAY and reflects on his devastating finish in the men’s individual free skate at the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics that shocked the figure skating world. “It’s just a lot on you, so many eyes, so much attention…it really can get to you. I was not ready to handle that,” he says. He also opens up about the moment he  embraced the gold medal winner, Kazakhstan’s Mikhail Shaidorov, and celebrates how men’s figure skating is back on the map.

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