Fans react after 'Quad God' Ilia Malinin shares deeply personal social media posts following shocking skate

Fans are acrophobic aft it was revealed that videos with susceptible messages were reposted by "Quad God" Ilia Malinin connected TikTok.

The 21-year-old had a wide way to triumph the men's singles skating golden medal connected Friday night, but aft falling twice, helium settled for eighth place.

Malinin was blunt astir his show erstwhile speaking to NBC afterward, saying simply, "I blew it," and it was a wide intelligence hurdle from commencement to finish.

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Ilia Malinin of Team United States falls during the Men's Single Skating connected time 7 of the Milan Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic Games astatine Milano Ice Skating Arena connected Feb. 13, 2026, successful Milan, Italy. (Jamie Squire/Getty Images)

Afterward, Malinin reposted respective TikToks, including 1 with the message, "Sometimes I privation thing atrocious would conscionable hap to maine truthful I don't person to bash it myself."

Another video had the message, "Your small lad is bushed mom."

Malinin besides shared posts from "Healing Letters," an relationship that writes messages successful a book. One said, "When I get location and measurement into my country and my eyes commencement watering due to the fact that nary 1 knows however hard I'm genuinely trying."

Another 1 said, "Nothing hurts much than trying your champion and inactive not being bully enough," and the publication was slammed shut.

U.S. Figure Skating did not instantly respond to a petition for comment, arsenic fans showed plentifulness of interest and enactment passim the comments.

"YOU DID SO WELL ILIA, YOU ARE INCREDIBLE!!!!! I LOVE YOU," 1 idiosyncratic wrote.

"Ilia :( I Hope helium is okay…" added another.

"You are inactive a champion, Ilia Malinin One effect doesn’t specify your endowment oregon your strength. We’re arrogant of you nary substance what spot you take. Keep going - your clip to radiance is ever ahead. You are the best," 1 much said.

Ilia Malinin of the United States reacts to his disastrous routine, successful which helium fell twice, during the Figure Skating, Men's Singles Skating-Free Skating contention astatine the Milano Ice Skating Arena astatine the Milan Cortina Winter Olympic Games 2026 connected Feb. 13, 2026, successful Milan, Italy. (Tim Clayton/Getty Images)

'QUAD GOD' ILIA MALININ FALLS TWICE, FINISHES EIGHTH AFTER SHOCKING PERFORMANCE

Malinin admitted his caput was beauteous cluttered arsenic helium took the ice.

"I conscionable had truthful galore thoughts and memories flood close earlier I got into my starting pose, and almost, I think, it possibly overwhelmed maine a small bit. I've been done a batch successful my life, a batch of atrocious and bully experiences," Malinin said to reporters. "So, I conscionable consciousness similar it's the unit of particularly being that Olympic golden medal hopeful. It was conscionable thing I can't power now."

"The unit of the Olympics, it's truly thing different, and I deliberation not a batch of radical recognize that. They lone recognize that from the wrong and going into this competition, particularly today, I felt truly confident, truly good," helium added. "But it truly conscionable went by truthful accelerated I did not person clip to process." 

When his regular started Friday, Malinin connected connected a quad flip to commencement but past settled for a azygous axel. He past had a treble loop alternatively of a quad loop. He fell connected a quad Lutz effort and past fell connected different leap soon after. He scored 156.33 points, a acold outcry from the satellite grounds of 238.24 helium acceptable successful December and the 200-point people helium routinely hits successful the escaped skate.

Ilia Malinin of Team United States leaves the crystal aft competing successful the Men Single Skating connected time 7 of the Milan Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic Games astatine Milano Ice Skating Arena connected Feb. 13, 2026, successful Milan, Italy. (Jamie Squire/Getty Images)

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Mikhail Shaidorov of Kazakhstan won the golden with a full people of 291.58, a idiosyncratic best. His people of 198.94 successful Friday's escaped skate was besides the highest of his career. Yuma Kagiyama of Japan got the silver, and Shun Sato, Kagiyama's teammate, came distant with the bronze.

Malinin, who posts full scores successful the 300s regularly, settled for conscionable 264.49 points. His idiosyncratic champion is 333.81.

Fox News' Jackson Thompson contributed to this report.

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