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Nathan Chen

I can’t keep up with all that‘s been written about him - still trying to digest it all. Just an incredible skate by Nathan! As others have expressed, I was very, very nervous beforehand, but was so pleased to see mostly positive stuff on social media afterward. For once, the naysayers have been drowned out. Feeling relieved for the moment, but the nervousness will build up again as we get closer to the individual event. Thanks, everyone, for winnowing through all the media and providing some of the more interesting tidbits here.
 
sheetz said:
It's so hard to keep track of everything but I'm sure I linked them all somewhere in this thread.

There are several versions of the Toyota commercial and two versions of the Grubhub. A few completely different Xfinity commercials. Bridgestone, Visa, and Panasonic have commericals. Omega has a commercial but he's not in it.
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Oh wow, I didn't realize there were two different Grubhub ones, etc. And I just saw the Xfinity commercial (with the skater in the behind the scenes clip you linked) tonight during Opening Ceremonies broadcast!! Thank you as always for all the links, it's SO appreciated!! :)
 
More commercials stuff:
Bridgestone IGS. Hurry before it disappears.

Watch this story by Bridgestone Tires on Instagram before it disappears.

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Behind the scenes of Grubhub
Behind the scenes of Xfinity

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Father of Xfinity girl shares story behind the commercial.
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How my daughter ended up figure skating with Nathan Chen in an Xfinity ad | Todd Neff

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Yale News interviewed Sarah Hughes and she offered some thoughts on Nathan.
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Life after gold: An Olympic champion reflects on her Yale years

Gold medal-winning Olympic figure skater Sarah Hughes ’09 discusses her life in sports, what drew her to Yale, and advice for fellow Olympian Nathan Chen.
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More pics from Xfinity.
 
Is team men fs decided? I hope nathan is not competing because men’s short is just 2 days away…
 
Brezina interview:

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How do you see the chances of Nathan?
Well, you probably saw Nationals, and it was not even his best skate. He fell, which is rare, seeing him fall, even in practice. Knowing what he is capable of and seeing him practice for the last two years I don't wish anything but him winning. If there's anyone that deserves to win the Olympics, for the way he works, and for his determination, it's definitely him. I don't know how anyone else trains, what they do, but purely from watching him on the ice every day and putting two hundred percent into what he does, it's just something out of this world. I've trained with people my whole life, that were European champions, world champions and Olympic medallists, and I've never seen in my entire career that determination that he has. It's really out of this world. One role plays his mum, she wants just the best out of him, one role plays Rafael [Arutunjan, the coach of Nathan Chen and Michal Březina] who prepared him for this. It's a long road, it takes very long time to get someone ready to be an Olympic champion. It doesn't just happen in one year. If there is anyone that deserves to win purely on the way he trains and the way he fights for everything in training, in competition, it is Nathan.
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Jason describes what makes Nathan special on the Today show.

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Nathan appears several times in this Team USA's Parents video at 2:24 and 3:17.
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Team USA's parents cheer on their Olympians from back home | Winter Olympics 2022 | NBC Sports

From childhood dreams to the top of their sports, these parents have watched their Olympian kids every step of the way. They'll watch from a little further a...
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Shoutout from Ballet West academy
[https://www.instagram.com/p/CZmnydcMGlA/
 
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Seems relaxed: Nathan Chen seemingly as relaxed as we've seen him this Olympics so far - even cracked a joke after he finished up his practice http://bit.ly/3gbBOZ9

Practice seems good: Practice notes Chen: 3F, 3Lz, 3T, 4T1Eu3F, 3A, 4F, 3A, 4Lz3T, 3S, 2S, 4S, 4F, 4S, 3Lz3T, 4T1Eu3F, 4T1Eu3F, 2S, 4S, runthru (4F3T, 4F(hangs on), 4S, 4Lz(step), 4T1Eu3F, 3A, 3Lz3T), 4Lz, 4F(hangs on), 4F, 4Lz3T, 3A, 3A, 4T1Eu3F, 2T, 4T1Eu3F, 4S http://bit.ly/3gbBOZ9

He did a SP run through too: Nathan Chen does a no-music runthrough of his SP: 4F, 3A, 4Lz3T Then a music runthrough of his FS: 4F3T, 4F(hangs on), 4S, 4Lz(step), 4T1Eu3F, 3A, 3Lz3T http://bit.ly/3gbBOZ9

Also he skates 4th in Group 5: Men SP order 1 Sadovsky Majorov Britschgi Selevko Jin Litvintsev 2 Lee Carrillo Shmuratko Bychenko Brezina Zhou 3 Milyukov Kerry Siao Kondratiuk Semenenko Aymoz 4 Vasiljevs Mozalev Hanyu Uno Cha Rizzo 5 Grassl Messing Kagiyama Chen Kvitelashvili Brown
 
melZ said:
I am fuming from tweets like this where they claim to be experts! I tried to block a lot of people on twitter but they always find their way on my feed! Sorry just wanted to vent 😭 How do you guys deal with this?

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LOL, this happens every time Nathan wins, so it's to be expected. Just ignore it. And in general I would recommend not bringing controversy from elsewhere onto these forums.
 
sheetz said:
LOL, this happens every time Nathan wins, so it's to be expected. Just ignore it. And in general I would recommend not bringing controversy from elsewhere onto these forums.
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Oh okay! Sorry still new to the forums. I’m trying my best to ignore those, maybe I should just not use twitter until the end of the olympics lol
 
Peacock aired today's practice cam footage and Nathan looked really relaxed and solid.

Great article in the Washington Post
Some excerpts:
Asked what has made Chen the most dominant skater of the past four years, the Russian native counts off the reasons in a broken English.
“Passion first,” Arutyunyan says. “[Then] ability to work hard and be competitive no matter what.”
He does not mention Chen’s skating or ability to propel himself into soaring, spinning jumps, or the gentleness with which he returns to the ice. None of these physical attributes, he says, matters as much as the desire.
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Arutyunyan has another story, one he says explains everything about determination and drive. When Chen was about 13 or 14, he got food poisoning right before a major competition and was vomiting in the hotel.
“You know how people get gray when they are sick?” Arutunyan recalls. “He was not gray; he was green.”
Arutyunyan suggested pulling out of the competition, but Chen refused.
That night, Arutyunyan stood beside the rink, begging Chen not to throw up on the ice but clutching a bucket just in case. Chen wound up winning.
“That’s what makes him.” Arutyunyan says.
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Chen’s passion has allowed him and Arutyunyan to think almost alike. Arutyunyan, who had been coaching for three decades before taking on Chen, found in the 11-year-old someone who absorbed and trusted his coaching so much that he could try something new: Arutyunyan “invented” a way for Chen to perfect enough skills to be able to alter his programs in the weeks before big competitions.

“We do like the game Lego — you know Lego?” Arutunyan asks. “You can always match pieces in Lego, so that’s what we do. We have pieces. We can always change it and build something else.”
It sounds simple. It’s actually very hard.
“It would not have worked for me,” 1988 Olympic gold medalist Brian Boitano says.
Most skaters need the repetition in their programs, committing every element to muscle memory.
“In talking to the male skaters, it’s why we think he’s so amazing,” Boitano says. “It’s because he’s able to take one thing out and put another thing in and still be successful at it and not get confused. He’s in control. It’s really impressive. It’s a whole other level of athlete.”
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melZ said:
I am fuming from tweets like this where they claim to be experts! I tried to block a lot of people on twitter but they always find their way on my feed! Sorry just wanted to vent 😭 How do you guys deal with this?

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I took a look at the user. She obviously is a fake ISU judge and just joined twitter yesterday to flatter Hanyu and belittle his competitors. Her intro in her first post was "I am a ISU qualified judge from Ukraine." Right there you know she's a fraud when she said "ISU qualified judge."
 
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