Chen’s near-perfect skate wins long-sought Olympic gold
Posted on AllSides February 10th, 2022
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Nathan Chen remembers making the long drive with his mother from his home in Utah to Rafael Arutyunyan’s training base in Southern California. He had started out in figure skating just a few years earlier, using his sister’s skates and sleeping in the car to follow his Olympic dreams.
Ten years later, Chen sat alongside Arutyunyan as his scores were read and that dream realized.
With a nearly perfect free skate on the heels of a record-setting short program, the 22-year-old Yale student walked away with the gold medal at the...