tonight in beijing, nathan chen skates the first time, kicking off the figure skating team event. while the american star has his eye on gold, he told me he wants something more. he is a once in a generation talent. is he super human? when you watch him skate, you kind of feel cool. athlete. he makes it looks so easy. is skating fun? absolutely. if it wasn t fun, i would have retired long ago. nathan chen was just three when he laced up his first pair of skates at a salt lake city rink. he was a natural from the start, especially when it came to those jumps. talk about the quad. what does it feel like to nail
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it? sort of love for jumping, love for rotating was something that clicked immediately. landed my first when i was 15. since then, it is a joy to be able to do them. by 2018, he was doing more quads more masterfully than anyone in the world, as many as six in one program. nathan chen. when he stepped onto the ice at the last olympics, he was a serious contender for gold. did you have fun in pyeongchang? i didn t. i was so grounded in one goal, this was the opportunity to win. but it was not to be. a major mistake on the triple axle. after a disastrous short program, nathan finished off the podium in fifth place. but the best athletes use disappointments as fuel. nathan wouldn t lose again for more than three years. he is now a six-time national
going to happen. so i really am looking forward to hopefully the news coming out in the next few hours. it is hard to have trust, especially when there is a delay like this, it does make you wonder. it makes you say who is talking to whom about what right now? what possible deals are being cut? i don t know there are any, but the delay makes you ask those questions. caitlin weaver, thank you for being with us. thank you. so a new warning from the department of homeland security about the trucker protests spreading across canada. how it could affect the super bowl. and we are about to get our eyes on a critical inflation report. we ll bring you those numbers as soon as they re released. team usa figure skating star nathan chen is now an olympic gold medal champion. the advice that john berman gave him more than ten years ago when he taught him everything he knows. i said skate better than me. skate better than me. he did that, for sure. we ju. so there s millions of - dahl
an action packed day four of the winter olympics is underway in beijing. already we ve seen one record broken by u.s. men s figure skating star, nathan chen. not only did he take the top spot in tuesday s program. his score also set a new world record. meanwhile, freestyle skier eileen gu notched a gold. she was born in the u.s. but she decided to ski for china. let s bring in cnn s coy wire. what a beautiful backdrop. what a beautiful morning. what a golden moment for eileen. there may be more gold up for grabs. you can imagine the pressure the 18-year-old must have been feeling. she was going to compete for her