Nathan Chen 2021 World Championships FS CBC

I'm next up here, he's the reigning

world

champion, he hasn't lost a competition since the 2018 Olympics in Korea, but Nathan Chen is in a hole, he's eight points behind at the start, but don't count this guy out . The free program of it has a potentially higher score than the use of hands, so it is still a game for anyone. Choreography by shaylyn bourne. Philip glass selections. He opens with the most difficult jump performed in skating at the moment, the quad lutz, and does so with a gue of 4.27, setting a very high level. standard from above triple quad flip triple toe now certainly absolutely as clean as a whistle beautiful quad cell watch for little touches of choreography that makes it look easy as successful throughout this program two consecutive spins both level four beautiful control in the sequence from places where he seems to be intentionally off balance, which is very difficult to do and control, he completely masters it, even that backwards drag, he has to put his foot at the right angle so as not to catch a toe again, it seems easy , but it's not you.

I can hear my voice change, you have really created a beautiful meditative state and then the power of your command of the quad toe euler jumps, we used to call it a half turn towards the turbo turn and again getting great degrees of execution in each element as well as that bonus 10 now in the second half oh god I think wow the technical tracker is going to blow up two skaters coming up in this men's competition but when we get back

nathan

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nathan

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holds the

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record in skating frozen, I think that was close, it has to be close, it's like Carol said her jumps were pretty clean today, yeah, I doubt there will be many reviews for low rotation, if any, that was a great skate, absolutely pristine, he was in that area, if this was an i.

I don't want to say real competition, but if we had an audience, the next person wouldn't be skating for 10 minutes because the ice would be covered in flowers and toys and God knows what would have been a standing ovation. How many quads four? one, two, three, four, there were five quads. I think it was five, five quads, triple axle, plus, just incredible and yet I felt very compelled and still thinking about that sequence of steps, so I threw out everything you know. gravity, you know I wouldn't respect your jumping power and yet I keep going wow, what a great sequence of steps.

His personal best is due to a world record of 24.92 and he is quite close by a couple of points, so Nathan Chen easily moves into first place. place with only two skaters to come in that competition, it's a big score and you'd say this is over, except there's an eight or nine point lead and it's yuzuru hanyu who is the only other one.