![]() During those games Chen, who was considered a strong contender for a medal, suffered a setback when a series of mistakes in the short program left him in 17 th place, with little hope of reaching the podium. “I was just blown away.”Ĭhen arrived at Yale months after his highly anticipated Olympics debut in men’s figure skating during the PyeongChang, South Korea Games in February 2018. And there was the thrill of seeing the blue “Y” embedded at center ice. ![]() The arena, Chen recalls, brought together a perfect meld of form (the elongated swoop of its exoskeleton, the source of its “Yale Whale” nickname) and function (the exceptional quality of the ice). But something special happened the first time he stepped onto the ice of Yale’s Ingalls Rink some three years ago. ![]() Nathan Chen ’24 has skated in arenas around the world - from Stockholm’s Globen, the largest hemispherical building on Earth, to Osaka’s Municipal Gymnasium, which is built entirely underground.
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