MILAN — Lindsey Vonn crashed out in horrifying fashion. Mikaela Schiffrin wilted in her first event Tuesday morning. The President went after a snowboarder on TruthSocial.

That sound you heard Tuesday night? That was NBC executives breathing out for the first time since these Olympic Games opened.

That was when Ilia Malinin stepped right on up into the spotlight, putting himself on a firm path to individual men’s figure skating gold and to being the individual star of the Milan Olympics.

The Quad God, who leads Japan’s Yuma Kagiyama by just over five points after the short program portion of the event, still needs to get through the free skate on Friday night.