Gangneung,
South
Korea
February
17,
2018
18
year
old
American
figure
skater
Nathan
Chen
from
Salt
Lake
City,
Utah
came
to
the
Winter
Olympics
to
win
a
medal.
He
didn't,
but
instead
he
wowed
audiences
worldwide
by
making
history
as
the
first
person
in
Olympic
competition
to
perform
six
unprecedented
quad
jumps.
Nathan's
historic
performance
of
six
quads,
included
five
clean
quad
jumps,
and
on
the
third
quad
his
hand
touched
the
ground.
Despite
his
extraordinary
talents
and
record
as
the
only
international
skater
who
was
undefeated
on
the
Grand
Prix
circuit
this
season,
at
the
2018
Winter
Olympics
Nathan
came
in
17th
in
a
short
program,
and
in
the
team
event
short
program,
another
dismal
score.
"I
already
fell
so
many
times,
I
might
as
well
just
go
out,
throw
everything
down,
and
see
what
happens,"
Chen
told
the
press.
On
his
third
day
of
competition,
in
men's
free
skate,
Nathan
skated
as
the
star
that
he
is,
and
rose
from
17th
to
5th
place.
Reigning
Olympic
champion
Yuzuru
Hanyu
from
Japan
won
the
gold,
becoming
the
first
back-to-back
gold
medalist
in
the
event
since
1952
when
American
figure
skater
Dick
Button
won
the
gold.
Chen,
the
son
of
Chinese
immigrants,
began
taking
skating
lessons
at
the
age
of
three.
By
the
time
he
was
ten,
he
was
competing
in
the
U.S.
Figure
Skating
Championships.
He
is
expected
to
compete
in
March
for
the
2018
World
Figure
Skating
Championships.