The American star leapt into first place with an outstanding short program, while his chief rival, Yuzuru Hanyu of Japan, made a costly. Today we will discuss about Nathan Chen: Last night| Video| Short| Short program
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Nathan Wei Chen (Chinese: ; born May 5, 1999) is an American figure skater. He is a three-time world champion (2018, 2019, 2021), 2022 Olympic silver medalist and 2018 Olympic bronze medalist in the team event, 2017 Four Continents champion, three-time Grand Prix final champion (2017, 2018). 2019), and a six-time US national champion (2017–22). At the junior level, Chen is the 2015–16 Junior Grand Prix Final champion, the 2013–14 Junior Grand Prix Final bronze medalist and the 2014 World Junior bronze medalist.
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| Native name | 陈巍 |
| Full name | Nathan Wei Chen |
| Country represented |  United States |
| Born | May 5, 1999 Salt Lake City, Utah, U.S. |
| Height | 1.65 m (5 ft 5 in)[1] |
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Nathan Chen of the United States competes in the men’s singles skating short event of the figure skating event during the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games.
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BEIJING — A gold medal for American figure skater Nathan Chen, after setting a world record in the men’s short event, looks well within reach.
Chen came out on top of a talented group of skaters during the men’s singles skate short event at the Beijing Olympics on Tuesday. He and 23 of his competitors will now compete in the men’s free skate event on Thursday.
After moving to Beijing after his disastrous turn at the 2018 Pyeongchang Olympics, Chen was facing enormous pressure. During last week’s team event, Chen hinted at what was to come.
Leading up to Chen’s performance, the top four skaters from Japan and South Korea rode their own, higher-caliber skaters around the ice – setting the bar high for the American.
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He performed a clean routine consisting of two, effortless quad jumps. His performance netted a season-high, international best score of 113.97, six points ahead of second-placed Yuma Kagiyama of Japan. The former world record in the event was 111.82 which was set in 2020 by Yuzuru Hanyu, the defending champion.
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Hanyu also performed on Tuesday, but finished eighth after struggling to complete the quad jump. Hanyu won gold medals in the last two Olympics.
US According to Figure Skating, Chen’s teammate Jason Brown came in sixth, achieving his personal best score of 97.24.
American figure skater Vincent Zhou, who was also supposed to compete on Tuesday, withdrew last night after testing positive for COVID-19.
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United States figure skater Nathan Chen came to the short event hoping to erase memories of 2018, and he wrote an entirely new narrative as he set a world record with his score in the event.
Chen, who stumbled into the shorter program during the 2018 Olympics in Pyeongchang, gave the world notice that he was at the top of his game during his routine, and he started it off with a spectacular quad flip
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Skating to Charles Aznavour’s French classic “La Boheme,” Chen’s routine was the pice de résistance of Tuesday morning’s short program.
As part of his routine, Chen perfectly executed a quad flip, triple axle, and a quad flip-triple toe loop combination that drew judges and an American audience to see his chance at Olympic redemption. Stayed late for
“I was excited,” Chen said during the NBC broadcast. “Last Olympics, both the shorter events didn’t go the way I wanted and finally got the opportunity to skate the events the way I wanted—it feels really cool. It means a lot.”
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