Helene Elliott: Nathan Chen soars in short program at Winter Olympics
by Helene Elliott, Los Angeles Times
Feb 08, 2022
3 minutes
BEIJING â A shocking mistake by Yuzuru Hanyu of Japan cracked the door open for the end of his reign as two-time men's Olympic figure skating champion. Nathan Chen barged through that door, blowing past Hanyu on Tuesday with a brilliant, world-record performance that put him in the lead after the short program, the first of two segments in the competition.
Hanyu touched off an audible gasp throughout Capital Indoor Stadium when he reduced his first planned jump, a quadruple salchow, to a single
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