US figure skater Nathan Chen was tipped to win figure skating gold at Pyeongchang. He'd just won the US national figure skating championship for the second year in a row in January 2018 and he'd dazzled both fans and judges with his complex quadruple jumps.
He did everything he needed to to prepare for his first Winter Olympics and some journalists were claiming he was "on the verge of becoming the best figure skater alive."