Team USA Leads Figure Skating After Strong Nathan Chen Performance

Olympic determine skating formally kicked off on the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics on the Capital Indoor Stadium three occasions, as Workforce USA got here out on prime total after the boys’s quick program, pairs quick and rhythm dance. 

Workforce USA bought off to a sizzling begin within the occasions as Nathan Chen recorded a private better of 111.71 within the males’s quick program, simply .11 from the world report. The 22-year-old Chen is USA’s greatest likelihood to get on the medal podium subsequent week within the males’s particular person occasion.

Chen opened together with his quad flip, adopted by a triple Axel and quad Lutz-triple toe loop mixture on the best way to hitting all of his jumps. 

Japan’s Shoma Uno positioned second with a rating of 105.46, and the ROC’s Mark Kondratiuk got here third with 95.81.

Workforce USA constructed off Chen’s victory with one other within the rhythm dance, the place Madison Hubbell and Zachary Donohue topped the competitors with a rating of 85.56. The pair had been nearly overtaken by the ROC, however Victoria Sinitsina and Nikita Katsalapov fell quick with a rating of 85.06, putting second. 

The U.S. lastly fell from first within the pairs quick program as Brandon Frazier and Alexa Knierim completed third with 75.0. 

The Individuals had been main till Han Cong and Sui Wenjing of China scored an 82.83. Second place was then stolen by the ROC, who leapfrogged USA with a rating of 82.64. 

Regardless of the loss, Workforce USA leads the group occasion with 28 factors, adopted by the ROC and China with 26 and 21 respectively. 

The Individuals will look to increase the lead on Saturday, when the ladies’s quick program and males’s free skate begins at 8:30 p.m. ET.