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Netflix isn't available internationally all the time, but the NBA is. It's nice to have something that feels like home.
Nathan Chen /
Nba
Internationally
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When I watch my skating when I was younger, I definitely see all this balletic movement and this artistry come through.
Nathan Chen /
Artistry
Skating
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My Chinese name is Chen Wei. I can speak a tiny, tiny bit, just basically get around, but I understand it decently well.
Nathan Chen /
Chinese
Speak
Tiny
Understand
Bit
Basically
Decently
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I want to do something in medicine, for sure. I don't know what, exactly, that entails, but something along those lines.
Nathan Chen /
Medicine
Know Something Want
Entails
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I would love to be working in a hospital or in a completely different realm, working with or exploring the lives of animals.
Nathan Chen /
Exploring
Animals
Hospital
Realm
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Personally, I feel like there should be some sort of cap on the quads, but we should still be pushing it to a certain number.
Nathan Chen /
Pushing
Cap
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I really wanted to play hockey. My mom thought figure skates looked easier to use, so she put me in the learn-to-skate program.
Nathan Chen /
Hockey
Skates
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I think that ballet and skating definitely go hand in hand, especially growing up at Ballet West, which is an incredible academy.
Nathan Chen /
Ballet
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I've been working on it a lot, trying to find the artistic balance, trying to find purpose in my movement combined with the jumps.
Nathan Chen /
Combined
Jumps
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We were all just taught to work as hard as we could, use these opportunities to advance, and just really appreciate all that we had.
Nathan Chen /
Appreciate
Advance
Opportunities
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I am a first-generation American of Chinese decent. My parents were both born and raised in China and moved to the U.S. in their 20s.
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Decent
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I like the challenge and instant gratification of landing a new jump or learning a new element. That made me fall in love with the sport.
Nathan Chen /
Gratification
Instant
Instant Gratification
Love Learning Me
Element
Jump
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I think my parents felt us being a minority a little bit more than I did, and they tried to shelter me from that so I didn't feel it at all.
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Shelter
Me Parents Feel
Minority
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If it's time to indulge, I love desserts, especially Hershey's chocolate. I also love sushi and Japanese food. Food is my favorite in general.
Nathan Chen /
Chocolate
Hershey
Indulge
Sushi
Love Time Food
General
Favorite
Desserts
Japanese
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A lot of the things I do outside the rink are just to relax and recover. We spend so much time at the rink, so it's nice to decompress a little.
Nathan Chen /
Relax
Spend
Outside
Recover
Rink
So Much Time
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I start in the morning with something like a breakfast burrito and a smoothie, something that gives me enough protein and carbs to start my day.
Nathan Chen /
Breakfast
Carbs
Protein
Morning Breakfast Me
Morning Start Breakfast
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Ever since I started skating, making the Olympic team was my ultimate dream. It's what has inspired and motivated me throughout my entire career.
Nathan Chen /
Ultimate
Entire Career
Olympic
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Once I landed the triple Salchow, I put it in the program. First landed triple toe, straight into the program. That's what I did with my quad suite.
Nathan Chen /
Landed
Suite
Toe
Triple
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My parents always enforce the idea of never giving up upon all of my siblings and me, and I think that's something that will stick with me my whole life.
Nathan Chen /
Giving Up
Sibling
Life Me Parents
Life Always Me
Enforce
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I've skated after Yuzu a handful of times. The only thing I can take away from it is to be prepared for the Pooh-bears to be raining down from the audience.
Nathan Chen /
Be Prepared
Handful
Raining
Skated
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Never give up. There are always tough times, regardless of what you do in anything in life. Be able to push through those times and maintain your ultimate goal.
Nathan Chen /
Able
Tough
Tough Times
Ultimate
Ultimate Goal
Anything
Always
Never
Those
Through
Times
Give
Maintain
Never Give Up
Up
Push
Regardless
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Throughout the day, I'll snack a lot. I always have some breakfast cereal, like Kellogg's cereal, something on hand, so that I can just quickly get some carbs in.
Nathan Chen /
Breakfast
Breakfast Cereal
Carbs
Cereal
Snack
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An artistic standpoint - I've watched a lot of ballet and source some inspiration from how they move, connect with each other, and find meaning in their movement.
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Ballet
Standpoint
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Half of learning a new element is just getting over the fear of doing it. Once you mentally prepare yourself enough to do the jump, that is really half the battle.
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Battle
Half
Mentally
Element
Jump
Prepare
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Once I really understood what skating was and what the Olympic really entailed, I knew that's what I wanted to do: I wanted to be there; I wanted to represent the U.S.
Nathan Chen /
Olympic
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I have confidence in how I've trained and prepared myself. I've dreamed about the Olympics for a long time, and it would be kind of silly and a waste to freak myself out.
Nathan Chen /
Confidence
Be Kind
Freak
Long Time
Olympics
Prepared
Silly
Waste
Time Myself Long
Dreamed
Trained
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I never got to go to prom or homecoming or a lot of the typical teenage stuff. But, if you think about it, I've gotten to go and meet different people and travel all over the world.
Nathan Chen /
Travel
Homecoming
Prom
Stuff
Teenage
Typical
World People Never
Travel World People
Different People
Gotten
Meet
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I really like to bike outdoors and love the weight-based workouts that I do. I am not the biggest fan of other cardio-based workouts. Off-season cardio sessions are pretty grueling.
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Bike
Cardio
Off Season
Grueling
Outdoors
Workouts
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It's something I have to remind myself about, that at every competition, I put a lot of pressure on myself, almost like it's the end of the world, and I have to keep reminding myself it's not.
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End Of The World
Remind
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It's reassuring knowing that people are supporting me and want to know more about me. It comes with being the national champion and making the Olympic team. I think that it's telling me I'm on the right path.
Nathan Chen /
Champion
Reassuring
Right Path
Path Me People
Olympic
Supporting
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I do very scientific-based training. However, for skating, that's a little bit out of the ordinary. Many skaters base their off-ice training around plyometrics, whereas mine is very strength- and power-based.
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Ordinary
Skaters
Whereas
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To have all of these jumps in my arsenal is very beneficial. I can always alter my program so I can either play it safe, or I can play it risky with high reward. It depends on what I feel like I need that day.
Nathan Chen /
Arsenal
Beneficial
Depends
Program
Safe
Alter
Always Day Feel
High
Either
Jumps
Reward
Risky
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I'm the baby for sure. My siblings are looking out for me, making sure I'm not doing something stupid. They are making sure my head is set straight and that I'm a good person outside of skating and inside of it, too.
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Good Person
Sibling
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I began skating in the official practice venue of the 2002 Games. It was a huge Olympic atmosphere with Apollo Ohno sitting on the wall every day when I walked into the rink. That was really cool and very inspiring to see.
Nathan Chen /
Inspiring
Apollo
Atmosphere
Official
Olympic
Rink
Venue
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Just being here at the Olympics is pretty incredible in itself. Seeing the unity of the athletes and to see how everyone has worked so hard to get here - and we are all so excited to be here - it's awesome to be able to experience it.
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Olympics
Unity
Athletes
Awesome
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If the jump is perfect, you come out, and you feel like you took a three-pointer in basketball or doing the perfect thing in whatever your sport is. You just get that adrenaline rush, a sense of satisfaction, like you want to do it again and again.
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Adrenaline
Satisfaction
Your Feel Doing
Jump
Rush
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Skating is a sport that I found a lot of interest in from a very, very young age. Ultimately, I think that being on the ice, being in the cold, and trying things and challenging myself in different ways is something that made me really interested in skating.
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Different Ways
Ice
Young Age
Age Myself Me
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There's a lot of skaters that I look up to, and I think my biggest skating role models were the two Russian competitors at the 2002 Olympic games in Salt Lake City. They really motivated me to follow my passion in skating, and it really blossomed from there.
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Competitors
Games
Models
Motivated
Olympic Games
Passion
Role Models
Salt
Salt Lake City
Biggest
Blossomed
Follow
Lake
Olympic
Role
Russian
Skaters
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There are always times when you don't want to go to the rink, or you don't want to do all the things you're supposed to do. Sometimes you're exhausted, or it's been a long week, but I always remind myself that this is my Olympic dream and the passion, because I love the sport very much.
Nathan Chen /
Exhausted
Passion
Love Myself Always
Love Myself Passion
Love Myself Long
Sport
Olympic
Remind
Rink
Supposed
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As a kid growing up, I didn't want to tell any of my classmates I did figure-skating because I knew they'd be like, 'Oh, you're a skater, you're gay, blah blah blah.' So I kept it to myself. Once I started getting to more of an elite level, I didn't really care what people thought, though.
Nathan Chen /
Blah
Classmates
Gay
Skater
Myself Gay People
Elite
Myself Care People
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