"Whatever ends up being the case will be the case, but I'm still wrapped up in what I was able to do today." "I mean, I don't really feel like I'm the most qualified person to talk about it," Chen said.
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Yuma Kagiyama and Shoma Uno of Japan took silver and bronze.Ĭhen also firmly put in the past any lingering memories of his brutal disappointment four years ago in Pyeongchang, when not even a monumental free skate could rescue his medal hopes after a disastrous short program. The statistics and data science major finished with an insurmountable total of 332.60 points, just three off his own world record and 22 points ahead of his closest competition. Inside historic Capital Indoor Stadium in China, the nation both his parents immigrated from, Chen landed all five of his quads during his "Rocketman" program set to the soaring film score by Elton John.
On Thursday, Chen was able to give his old coach something priceless. "She would just scrap together some dollars to try to pay Raf, and Raf obviously knew about the situation and thanks to the kindness of his heart, was able to just continue taking me in, and taking as much money as we could provide him."Īrutyunyan would try to give the money back sometimes, Chen said, "but I would always try to stick it in his pocket." We really didn't have much money," Chen said. He became the first American figure skating champion since Evan Lysacek in 2010 and capped one of the most dominant four-year runs in the history of the sport. With a nearly perfect free skate on the heels of a record-setting short program, the 22-year-old Yale student walked away with the gold medal at the Beijing Games on Thursday. Ten years later, Chen sat alongside Arutyunyan as his scores were read and that dream realized. He had started out in figure skating just a few years earlier, using his sister's skates and sleeping in the car to follow his Olympic dreams. What we’re wearing, and how we present ourselves, makes for the total package-and it makes a lasting impact on the audience and the judges.Nathan Chen remembers making the long drive with his mother from his home in Utah to Rafael Arutyunyan's training base in Southern California. Brown adds, “You’re always playing a different character. “Costumes are an important part of skating and can oftentimes express what the movement and choreography can’t,” says Chen, who is one of three American male figure skaters who will compete at the Olympics in Beijing this week, along with Vincent Zhou and Jason Brown. Style plays a crucial role in the world of skating, perhaps more than any other sport at the Winter Olympics.
“I wanted him to feel like he was on fire.” “We discussed the firepower it takes to shoot rockets up in outer space,” says Wang of the graphic design. His galaxy-print costume, designed by Vera Wang, was equally mesmerizing to watch. During his free-skate portion, performed to Elton John’s “Rocket Man,” Chen cut through the ice with complete elegance-pulling off impressive quadruple jumps and fusing them with sprightly hops and hip-hop movements. Figure Skating Championships last month, American figure skater Nathan Chen broke records when he won the title for the sixth straight time.
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