![]() ![]() Particularly striking in Torino was the ease with which Chen landed every jump during each practice and again in the actual competition. Their junior counterparts, who were done with their own competition, rushed to watch him skate and land five quads in his free skate. ladies champion, Alysa Liu, as well as the three new Russian queens, Alena Kostornaia, Anna Shcherbakova and Alexandra Trusova, all emphasized how much they look up to the three-time Grand Prix Final champion. ![]() One judge even awarded him the maximum score of 10 point for his Performance Component Score.Ĭhen also became an icon of the new generation. His opening quad flip-triple toe combination was rewarded with a 5.03 point GOE and added 20.23 points to his tally in a matter of two seconds. Chen received an unprecedented number of seven double-digit technical scores for his program, that is, one for each one of his jumping elements. The best skaters would receive one or two for a well landed quadruple junp or a triple-triple combination. Double-digit scores for a particular technical element used to be quite exceptional in any program. "Rocketman" truly reached the stars.Ĭhen beat records in every compartment of his game in Torino. ![]() Never had any champion scored as high as he did, 224.92 points for his free program and 335.30 points overall. Never had any skater realized perfectly such an extremely demanding program – even Chen himself. Superlatives have kept flowing over Chen's historic performance during the free program at the ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final 2019 in Torino Italy. In 1985, Elton John released a best-selling album titled "Ice on Fire." 34 years later, Nathan Chen, skating to the British icon's biopic Rocketman, was all the reverse - fire on ice. Nathan Chen Captures Third Straight ISU Grand Prix Final Title.2019 Grand Prix Final and Junior Grand Prix Final | Team USA Competition Central. ![]()
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