Ilia Malinin

Yeah, it

was her, and it was Alyssa Liu, and the Quad God, and they all did their things.

Love her, so happy for her.

I think Pasha has a great partner.

Yes.

And it was when Melanin from the Winter Olympics, he did his backflip, and everybody was like, oh, this is amazing.

And they forgot this lady who did it 20 years ago or 25 years ago who didn't get – she actually got disqualified for it.

Right.

Who would be your dream partner?

Ooh, I say this all the time, but Ilya Malinin.

Ooh.

He's a figure skater, yeah.

And...

Ilya Malinin, the quad guy, shoe in.

He's going to win gold.

My man filled like five times and finished eighth.

We had the same thing in men's figure skating.

There's no lock to win gold, but we had the ultimate lock to win gold in Ilya Malinin.

He was like head and shoulders above every other skater, and he was doing things that no other human being was ever doing on ice.

and he just completely combusted i've never seen anything like it he fell on like every jump and so here again you know that was live during the day and now we've got to do it at prime time so you have to take a completely different approach a different tone and you have to be able to kind of finish the story so what happened after his father is his coach what did his father say to him how do you then in the primetime version give you that full 360 moment of what occurred.

and then make a decision.

But this is where collaboration and the team, you know, is critically important and also integrating in our expert analysts.

So in the case of like, you know, Ilya Malinin in figure skating, We get Johnny Weir and Tara Lipinski.

We talk to them and just say, this is what we're thinking, but you've been in his shoes.

We'll talk about that one.

And then the ever-confusing Kaomura, who is off a stint training with Ilya Malinin just for, what, like a week or so?

Yeah.

We'll see what he does.

And so what I was told was basically, if you are going to the Grand Prix, you had to attend at least one of the two camps.

And so that's why you didn't see like the Jason Brown wasn't there, right? Ilya Malinin wasn't there, but they were there.

And Amber Glenn wasn't there.

All three of them were at the one that was in Colorado Springs a few weeks ago.