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Post by Admin on Jan 17, 2018 19:14:43 GMT
 How Nathan Chen's Quad Record Is A Game Changer For The Olympic Winter Games CBC Sports |
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Post by Admin on Feb 18, 2018 19:14:34 GMT
Meet Nathan Chen, the Figure Skater Who Brought Athleticism to Artistry | NYT - Winter Olympics
Quadruple or quad jumps are figure skating jumps that involve at least four full revolutions. Successful quad jumps occur when the figure skater takes off backwards, does at least four full revolutions and lands with one foot on a backward outside edge of their skate.
Men’s events in figure skating tend to place a lot of focus on quad jumps, specialized in the U.S. by skater Nathan Chen, who became the only figure skater to land five quadruple jumps in one program in 2017. The quadruple jump phenomenon has taken off over the past decade, and is now basically a requirement for men who want to compete after the International Skating Union increased the jump’s point value in 2010, according to Quartz.
Most quadruple jumps are toe loop or Salchow jumps. Quadruple axel jumps are technically possible, although they would require an additional half-turn mid-air. No athlete has accomplished the quadruple axel thus far.
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Post by Admin on Mar 22, 2018 18:56:05 GMT
 A 94.26 for Shoma Uno, and Nathan Chen is your leader after the short program. #WorldFigure #Milano2018 Vincent Zhou won the figure skating world junior championship in 2017 and would love to do the same in his senior debut one year and a handful of days later.  Standing in his way, however, is U.S. Olympic teammate Nathan Chen, who took over the top spot in the standings and sits in the lead with a score of 101.94 after the men’s short program at the world championships in Milan on Thursday. Zhou, the youngest member of Team USA at the Olympic Winter Games PyeongChang 2018, is currently in third place with a score of 96.78. Russia’s Mikhail Kolyada scored 100.08 and is in second heading into Saturday’s free skate. Chen is on his way to redemption after placing 17th in the short program in PyeongChang last month after entering as the gold-medal favorite. With the highest free skate score the next day, he finished in fifth. He also entered last year’s event – his first senior world championships – as a medal favorite but came up short with some mistakes and was sixth. |
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Post by Admin on Mar 24, 2018 19:00:56 GMT
 Nathan Chen’s redemption is complete. While all of his top competitors fell, the 18-year-old Chen completed six quadruple jumps in the free program on Saturday to become the first U.S. winner of the men’s world figure skating title since 2009. For the rest, it was a fallathon: 14 sprawls, splats, and tumbles among five competitors as they attempted the all-mighty quad. There were three falls by silver medalist Shoma Uno of Japan, who matched his Olympic silver, and two by Mikhail Kolyada of Russia, who took bronze.  Skating last, Chen said he knew the others made mistakes - though not quite how bad – and that gave him the freedom to attempt six quads, knowing he had room for error. After his woeful Olympic short program put the podium out of reach, Chen said at the worlds, “I just wanted to redeem myself in the short, and try to maintain what I did in the long.” |
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Post by Admin on Apr 11, 2019 18:25:37 GMT
As the competitive figure-skating season ends, two-time world champion Nathan Chen will spend his summer vacation from Yale University performing with the Stars On Ice tour and decompressing. The 2018-19 season was one of Chen's best ever. After last year's fifth-place finish at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, Chen went on to win the world championships. Last month, he did it again.  "It felt amazing. Just to get one worlds title is really a dream come true. That's why most of these athletes practice every single day of their lives to get to that stage," Chen told UPI in an interview.  Like Chen, many skaters balance higher education with competition. But many fans wondered if Chen would struggle with the transition. They needn't have worried. He started strong with a straight gold medal streak on the Grand Prix circuit, including the final. |
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