Full press conference: Nathan Chen had to 'recalibrate' before gold medal winning competition 

Yes, I agree that Nathan is really a "Rocketman"! Both the left and the right sides of his brain are so balanced - the artistic side and the logical side having Statistics and Data Science as Nathan's double major at Yale University! What an amazing gentleman!!!

Beyond awestruck at this man 😱🙌🏻

Wow! Thanks for the info on Nathan’s life

He's incredible, and major in Data Science and Statistics. Not easy majors. I hope he gets some rest.

Yeah. He is Chinese. I hope next winter olympics he represents his motherland.

They have very good comradary. A fellowship based on pushing each other and mutual admiration.

Hopefully we will get to see them head to head at Worlds next month! I don't know if both of them are planning to compete there, but I certainly hope so.

He’s a perfect example of a true Olympian.

@@elisabethanderson7124 I am almost certain that yuzu wont be competing at worlds. I mean he has one more chance to land the quad in competition, so this might be a chance for him, but I dont know. This olympics were never about winning for yuzu. He went in coachless, with a jump that nobody else has landed... If feel like he came to the olympics to try and do history with the jump. Even if he did not win, landing that jump at the freaking olympics would have been better than winning.

Right. Nathan knows he's the greatest male skater since 2018 and really, the greatest of all time. It's just proper and professional to not say that about yourself. I think Hanyu only defeated Nathan twice in his career, and never in the last four years. No skater past or present can skate Nathan's programs jump for jump. Because of that, each time he takes the ice he makes history. Not only does he own the SP, LP and total score world records, but he owns 5 of the top 6 total program scores of all time, 7 of the top ten scores over 300, and the top four LP scores. With regard to your comment about never seeing a clean head-to-head between him and Hanyu, giving Hanyu his due respect, the reason for that is because (as NBC stated at '21 Worlds) Hanyu has not skated two clean programs back-to-back with all +GOE and full rotation on all his jumping passes since 2015. Everyone remembers Hanyu's injury in '17, so perhaps that only exacerbated things for him. In contrast, Nathan has skated many back-to-back clean programs, such as at the '19 Worlds, '19 GPF, and many others. Even his two Olympic programs here had no deductions or negative GOE on any element.

He’s genuine, honest & grounded, never spoke as if he’s above all or knows all after winning the gold. These reporters should stop placing these weighty directed non-sport issues to the accomplished young athletes & let them celebrate with liberty. Truth will prevail. We all will face God some day.

Agreed. He made sure to congratulate the other 2 medalists even though the spotlight was on him. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-b4OpAZcHgs4.html

He’s Chinese

@@stevenf.5179 And was born and lived in the US his whole life

Congrat to all us common people enjoying the even more precious prize of freedom for every one living in America...the chinese athletes will not get this prize of freedom even if the chinese athletes had won the gold medal.

@@kongchan437 thank you.

Very well said, my friend. Feel the same here. You're very nice , kind and open minded .

Agree.

Seriously, let him enjoy the moment.

I could not agree more with your comment!😁

Exactly, as an ardent Nathan fan I can say how great athlete and person Shoma is ! I remember him talking about Nathan and what a class it was ... Yuma is fantastic too ....

正確的叫法是：華裔美國人。 首要的是美國人，其次才是其他什麼裔。

Me think the chinese reporter wanted to steal some credit for the ccp, asking Nathan question in mandarin...trying to remind people of Nathan's root...Nathan so far exhibits integrity by remaining with the USA team instead of joining the chinese team...i am sure the ccp already tried to entice him to jump ship given his past impressive achievements.

Nathan is a real one. 💯he didnt sellout, like that traitor aileen go🤡

@@kongchan437 Mr. Chen was pretending his inability to speak good Chinese; I witness his fluent Mandarin from time to time.

@@Grizzlyx9 Traitress Gu.

@@Grizzlyx9 But the endless Asian hate in the US. My gosh, I see old asian grandmas being pushed around, get thrown in front of trains, beaten up, shouted at with racial slurs. I think Asian Americans get pushed around enough, they will eventually go to the other side.

exactly

I just read an article that said Andrei Mozalev was getting death wishes from Yuzuru Hanyu fans ! Hanyu fans believe Mozalev is responsible for making a hole in the ice !! Fans, apart from the accusations of deliberately creating a hole in the ice, also accused him of appearing next to the Japanese too often and disturbing his warm-up !

@@noran7809 Yuzuru fans are insane and not in the good way.

@@black_rx4549 O yeah, Mozalev had to removed his Instagram account !

@@noran7809 Believe me, I saw their toxicity. They were doxing someone for saying Congratulations to Nathan.

@@noran7809 if that’s the case then he should be able to do the same jump clean the so called a hole caused him not able to take off. He did the same jump on his FS and fell hard and I mean hard fall. So his fans need to stop making excuses for every mistakes he made. This is a call for being a true fans. More like a big Fcken lunatic and can’t see that your idol is getting old and his time is up . Instead of courage him to take care of his health and move on to the next chapter of his life. No matter what he does or want to keep on skating he will not be able to compete with the younger skaters. Nathan himself say the same thing that soon he will be too old to compete with the youngster and he have to retired as well. That’s why he’s attending college and move on to the next chapter of his life

I know right. He had already got so much hate from the Chinese natives. I’m Chinese so I have read a ton of negative comments on him. He is humiliated on Chinese social media at every aspect on a daily basis, from his costume to his appearance, from his style to his skating skills. They even called him a cheater because they believe his high scores can only be tribute to his American nationality. It all started with Nathan commenting on the Xinjiang problem and about how the Chinese government was treating the Uyghurs in an interview, though the Chinese officials never really reacted to that, the Chinese social media just exploded and immediately branded him an ass-licking American and China-hater. On top of that, the Chinese fanyus were more than happy to push the hate towards Nathan even forward. So my heart really missed a beat when I heard the CNN reporter asked Nathan about the criticism from the Chinese netizens. Thank god Nathan dodged that bullet and answered with grace. I just cannot see another wave of Nathan hate from my people.

Those political hacks from CNN don't care. They probably don't even know what event Nathan won.

America's value is more than just some gold medals....i really think in spite of all his hard work and money spent...he values the freedom of being an American more than any gold medal. All Americans have won gold medal ...Nathan is just icing on the cake ! Great job Nathan !

CNN being CNN, nothing unexpected.

But the Asian hate is true though. During the height of COVID in 2020, lot Asian Americans, especially elderly grandmas got pushed around, shoved on the street, get pushed in front of a metro train, 6 murdered prostitutes in Atlanta, a grandma get beaten up in San Francisco, an Asian kid got beaten up in the subway train, and so many more. Asian hate crime climbed 200% during 2020 - 2021. It was sad to see why they even pick on poor helpless elderlies most importantly.

Yuma and Shoma, you are great ! Respect and admiration !

Ikr. There were so many trick questions that Nathan could stumble into.

I know. Those are great questions, just not for Nathan. Like he's going to trash fellow olympians or trash China for their poor accommodations for the athletes 😁

He deftly handled those reporters with class and he was such a gentleman.

It's stupid, too, because if you know anything about American cultural ideals, particularly those around sports and sporting, you will understand that we love to win, but we do not love to win like THIS. We have a (misguided, but still) deep, cultural belief in our own moral superiority (for better or for worse). This is why, when our athletes are caught doping (Lance Armstrong, anyone?), we turn on them instantly for shaming us rather than defending them to the death (like Russians do when their athletes dope, for example). The fact that our athletes dope as much as the next guy is irrelevant, because we know that they aren't participating in systemic, state-sanctioned doping, so that makes us "better than." I have a problem with all of it, frankly, but you're never going to catch someone like Nathan Chen with a question like that, because his actual, and to be fair, HONEST answer will ALWAYS be that it's not up to him, doping is bad, but he just waits for the authorities to decide. Because for Americans and American athletes, it is ingrained in us from our earliest moments that a win is not legitimate if we had to wheel and deal (or worse, to cheat) to get it. At least, not publicly.

True story

No doubt about it !

GTFOH witht his bull🤡

He is absolutely a Chinese-American. And an American. Being one does not preclude the other. Please don't try to erase a part of his cultural identity. That does a disservice to everyone who is multicultural.

Chinese? He enters China without a visa?

美國在亞洲？

Keeping secret now. Later on you will see him like Eileen gu appear in Beijing treat him like a king.

Agreed. As a Chinese.

With the greatest respect to Nathan, all of these guys are so deserving, not just him! They all work their butts off to get where they are so let’s respect all the participants, not just Nathan!

That was fake news CNN, sir!