“I don't think we even debriefed as a family about it,” she said. She remembers chalking Chen’s errors in the 2018 team event short program to a fluke.
“I can't speak to his state of mind, but I know I was incredibly nervous, just shaking. “The most emotional experience of my life,” Alice said. The family, spread across San Francisco, New York and Portugal, plans to gather on Zoom to watch his skates for, possibly, his last Olympics.įour years ago, they were in South Korea. “He's actually taking the time to absorb everything around him and experience what it is to be living as an Olympian,” Alice said. He already took his U.S.-based sisters on a virtual tour of his accommodation. He hopes to have a jam session (music, not hoops) with other athletes. “He was like, ‘I didn't even take any pictures last time,’” older sister Alice said.Ĭhen, the youngest of five children, brought a guitar and a basketball to the Games. He had tunnel vision, and that was part of the problem. It wasn’t any better a week later, when he was 17th in the individual short, again with errors on all three jumping passes, before a historic free skate to finish fifth.Ĭhen says now that he doesn’t remember much about the 2018 Games. The team event runs through Sunday.įour years ago, Chen went into the Olympics undefeated for the season, then had a disastrous short program in the team event (the U.S. Later, Madison Hubbelland Zachary Donohueskate the rhythm dance, and Alexa Knierimand Brandon Frazierwill do the pairs’ short.
is a solid silver-medal favorite in the team event, behind the powerhouse team from Russia and in front of an improved Japan. Nathan Chentakes the ice for the first figure skating session of the Games. All events also stream live on Peacock Event
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