Nathan Chen reflected on all the miles he and his mother logged in her 'trusty little Prius' on the road to his gold medal performance in Beijing. 'This is a result of her.'
Chen, 22, reflected on TODAY Thursday in the wake of his nearly flawless performance about how the support of his mother, Hetty Wang, helped take him to heights he never imagined.
"We didn't always have the funds to be able to support coaching," Chen said."So she was basically my coach throughout that whole period of time I was growing up, and along when I decided to move to California to work with my current coach, Rafael Arutunian. She drove me back and forth in our trusty little Prius, so a lot of miles put together and a lot of time put together, but this is a result of her.
"I truly never thought I'd actually make it this far in skating," he said."To have the opportunity to get to the Olympics and be able to do what I did, it's all thanks to the people that have supported me throughout my career."Matthew Stockman / Getty Images "I think I learned really well how to sort of fall back to rely on my team and find the right pieces to work with and just trust them, trust myself, trust the rest of the people that have given me such great advice over the past four years, and that certainly helps here."
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