Looking very much like the Nathan Chen we expected to see at the recently concluded Olympics, Nathan Chen sits atop the standings after the short program at the World Championship in Milan, Italy.
Fellow U.S. Olympian Vincent Zhou, the youngest member of Team USA, skated the best short program of his life and is in third place in the men’s figure skating competition.
Russia’s Mikhail Kolyada is in second heading into Saturday’s free skate.
Chen, the gold medal favorite in the Olympics, seeks to redeem himself after finishing a disappointing fifth the Olympic Winter Games in PyongChang, South Korea last month. He fell repeatedly while attempting his quads in his short program putting him in 17th position.
In the Olympics long program, Chen attempted a comeback with a record-breaking six quads to zoom back near the top but it wasn’t enough to place him on the medals podium.
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