Yeah! It sure is!! The thing I love most about sports is you never truly know the outcome until you actually play the game, and when you're the underdog that's to your advantage, but when you're the favorite....

I'm thinking back to Nathan Chen's first Olympics and how he flubbed it Massively. You can go deep into my fiveblogs tag for the live reaction to it, but basically he made many mistakes all the way up until his individual free skate, where he finally became comfortable and pulled out a very good performance. Then he came back four years later and crushed it.

Thing with Ilia tho while he was shaky in the team short, he was excellent in the team free and in his individual short. The pressure just became Too Much right there at the end, and he tripped at the finish line, so to say

I feel bad for him — he was under a lot of pressure as the US favorite — but I do hope he can take this experience and come back stronger in 4 years