Nathan Chen Makes a Statement With Commanding Short Program in Olympic Team Event
If there were any doubts lingering inside Chen’s psyche from four years ago, he neither paid any attention to them nor wanted to discuss them after his first of an expected three performances in the 2022 Winter Games.“Rather than it being a demon, I think it was a helpful learning experience.”Four years ago, Chen was 0-for-6 on clean jumping passes in the two short programs, with two falls and one jump that did not earn a single point.
This time he opened with a quad flip that got a huge positive grade of execution, followed by a solid triple axel and a strong quad lutz-triple toe loop combination in the second half of the program. Chen is the only person to have done that combination in the bonus time period, when tired legs can make such a difficult element even more difficult.
This was the Chen who has won three straight world titles and six straight U.S. titles. The one who gave a lighthearted response when asked a few days ago about his quad jumps appearing effortless.He tossed them off insouciantly in a program as generally understated as the black tuxedo jacket, black pants and plain white shirt of his costume. His answers Friday were similarly low-key, but Chen insisted his internal reaction was different.
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