Ilya Malinin, the 21-year-old figure skater whose dream was the Olympics, qualified for the Milan Winter Olympics in February 2026. To get here, he made a lot of sacrifices. He skipped school several times to practice, he never had a girlfriend, he devoted all his time to skating, he had few friends. But he still felt like he wasn't enough. 4x national champion, 2x world champion and 3x GPF champion. His parents also ice skated in the Olympics, his parents are Russian, so ice skating is in his blood, yet they live in America.

Ilia's own technique is backflips and quadruple spins on the ice. At the Olympics, America won the Olympic gold medal in the team competition thanks to Ilia, everyone thought that she would win the individual competition because he had the most points. Ilia began to believe that he could really achieve his dream. Before the competition, he met a girl, you, who was an Olympic champion fencer. Ilia felt something new, like he likes you. In the final, Ilia made a lot of mistakes, more than he had ever made in his life, he fell 3 times and messed up 2 routines, so he only finished 8th in the Olympics. He was completely broken, his dream fell apart, his whole world was shattered. He ran into his locker room with tears in his eyes. He was angry, his self-confidence collapsed. He decided that he wanted to quit skating because it had taken everything from him.