{"id":1282339,"date":"2022-02-08T10:36:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-08T15:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1282339"},"modified":"2022-02-08T15:37:51","modified_gmt":"2022-02-08T20:37:51","slug":"american-figure-skater-nathan-chen-dominates-with-world-record-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/american-figure-skater-nathan-chen-dominates-with-world-record-performance\/","title":{"rendered":"American Figure Skater Nathan Chen Dominates With World-Record Performance"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Famerican-figure-skater-nathan-chen-dominates-with-world-record-performance%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1282339&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/GettyImages-1369271885-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span>There hasn\u2019t been much for Americans to celebrate in the first few days of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics. Five days into the events, and not a single American athlete has won a gold medal, with the U.S. totaling just five medals.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Even when an American has won gold in Beijing, it won\u2019t count toward the United States\u2019 medal total. <\/span><span>Tuesday morning local time, <\/span><span>American-born Chinese skier Elaine Gu won her first gold medal, landing her first ever 1620 to win a gold medal in the women\u2019s big air event. <\/span><span>The problem? Gu chose to ski for China in 2019, spurning her home country of America in a decision which has drawn strong criticism online.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>So when U.S. figure skater Nathan Chen took the ice Tuesday in Beijing, he had an opportunity to kickstart the U.S. hopes for Olympic dominance.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Chen did not disappoint.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Chen recorded the highest score in the history of the short program, getting a score of 113.97 from the judges. Chen landed a triple axel and two quadruple jumps in his routine, vaulting the American to the top of the leaderboard.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">NATHAN CHEN EVERYBODY\u203c\ufe0f<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WinterOlympics?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#WinterOlympics<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WatchWithUS?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#WatchWithUS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udcfa <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nbc?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@nbc<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/peacockTV?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@peacockTV<\/a> <br \/>\ud83d\udcbb <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/754qVDgxrV\">https:\/\/t.co\/754qVDgxrV<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/v4JBKdGp3F\">pic.twitter.com\/v4JBKdGp3F<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NBC Olympics (@NBCOlympics) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NBCOlympics\/status\/1490918081396625408?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 8, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>\u201cI was just elated,\u201d Chen <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/sports\/usa-nathan-chen-world-record-olympics\">said<\/a>. \u201cAt the last Olympics, both of the short programs didn\u2019t go the way I wanted. To finally get an opportunity to skate the programs I wanted feels really good.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Chen\u2019s performance was a massive rebound from his disastrous result at the 2018 Winter Games in Pyeongchang, where he was the favorite to win the gold medal but finished in fifth place.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cI think that looking back in 2018, all I could think about was skating and not being able to, obviously, skate well. So I want to definitely be able to embrace the Games in a different way,\u201d Chen <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/sports\/beijing-olympics-nathan-chen-returns-to-the-ice\/\">told<\/a> People prior to the start of the Olympics.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cIt\u2019s so easy to fall into the trap of being like, \u2018Oh my gosh, the pressure\u2019s building. Everything\u2019s so stressful. Everything\u2019s so scary,\u2019 \u201d Chen <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/sports\/beijing-olympics-nathan-chen-returns-to-the-ice\/\"><span>continued<\/span><\/a><span>. \u201cI think that feeling in that way isn\u2019t necessarily a bad thing all the time, but just being able to remind yourself like, yes, this is a pretty stressful time, but at the same time, there\u2019s a lot more to life. There\u2019s so much more than this individual competition, than this one shot.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The only other American competing on Tuesday was Jason Brown, who is in sixth place after a score of 96.27.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cI couldn\u2019t ask for more,\u201d Brown <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/olympics\/story\/_\/id\/33241847\/nathan-chen-scores-world-record-11397-points-short-program-beijing-olympics\">said<\/a>, visibly emotional during an interview on the broadcast. \u201cI gave it my all. It was a long time coming, eight years trying to get back to this stage, and being able to put on a performance like that, it feels great.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>RELATED: <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/american-skier-competing-for-communist-china-refuses-to-answer-whether-she-gave-up-u-s-citizenship\"><b>American Skier Competing For Communist China Refuses To Answer Whether She Gave Up U.S. Citizenship<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p><i>Joe Morgan is the Sports Reporter for The Daily Wire. Most recently, Morgan covered the Clippers, Lakers, and the NBA for Sporting News. Send your sports questions to&nbsp;<\/i><i>sports@dailywire.com<\/i><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a&nbsp;<\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i>member<\/i><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There hasn\u2019t been much for Americans to celebrate in the first few days of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics. 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