2022 U.S. Nationals: Senior Men's Free Skate

[16Olympics]

Someone have mercy on these souls here....

 

[invisiblespiral]

Nathan's FS makes me smile.

 

[Joe Mendoza]

he fell and he just laughed it off. he's so cool. lol

 

[YuBluByMe]

What…in….the….world….Dude just fell during his choreo….

 

[xabia]

Totally boring away from the jumps, and even they are boring. GOAT? Don’t think so.

 

[sequinsgalore]

14 Nathan Chen

Music: "Rocket Man" by Taron Egerton and "Bennie and the Jets" by Elton John, Pink and Logic

Black shirt with fire/galaxy print, black pants

4F+3T
4F - fall
4S
CCSp4
4Lz
StSq4
4T+1Eu+3F
3A
3Lz+3T
CCoSp4
ChSq - fall at the end!
FCCoSp4

2 falls, but he did enough for gold

FS: 123.56+91.06-2.00 = 212.62, 328.01, 1/13

 

[ivanja]

Yeah, maybe don't fall flat on your face at the Olympics, Nathan.

 

[cathlen]

Who is this commentator? He is so freaking annoying.... Nathan will win, but if anyone else skated like him today they wouldn't. AT least not in Free.

 

[anonymoose_au]

Oh shoot...

But wait the TES is still huge, did he do more quads than Ilia? I'm not good at identifying jumps...

 

[lariko]

So, Chen-Malinin-Zhou… that was so cool!

When is Olympic selection announced? Tomorrow? I am still clinging to home for CZM team

 

[kmw227]

The screech-gasp I let out when he fell in the choreo sequence ahaha oh Nathan

Another US title though, congrats!

 

[Mista Ekko]

I'm afraid Ross Miner situation from 2018 would be likely

But what if he's the best choice for the Team FS? (Assuming Nathan only does Short)

 

[Lamente Ariane]

And this competiton ends on the weirdly appropriate note of Nathan fluke falling on a step sequence, something he has never done before and will probably never do again.

 

[moonvine]

Well Nathan did his job mostly
but this FS is still so empty

This is literally one of my favorite FS of all time ever.

 

[momrk]

Better get it out here than at OG

 

[IlVoloFan]

I'm actually thinking the best strategy for the Olympics is leaving Vincent behind. Chen, Brown, and Malinin go. Not sure we need 3 quadsters, especially when one is prone to UR's.

Same. If they leave Ilia still, it’s so weird. I wouldn’t take Vincent. He already bombed twice this season and as you said he’s prone to UR.

 

[mrrice]

Is Malinin's mom Malinina?

Yes she is!!! That's where he got those good genes.

 

[Makkachin]

Ohh gosh Nathan. Well at least he's laughing. Only a couple of mistakes, I'll take it!

 

[Placebo11]

Not his best program.

 

[norwegianfairytale]

Whyyyy Raf are you not wearing K95 mask? Your mask is silly.