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" I tend to be a little bit more quiet and just to myself. I'm a little bit more introverted than extroverted. "
Nathan Chen
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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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" I've always had Russian coaches. "
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" Skating in itself is a difficult sport, and the amazing athletes within the sport are very challenging. "
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" I remember being a little kid walking down the grocery aisle seeing athletes on these cereal boxes. "
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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. "
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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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" Netflix isn't available internationally all the time, but the NBA is. It's nice to have something that feels like home. "
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" It's been a dream of mine to be selected on the U.S. Olympic team as long as I can remember. "
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" I hate spiders; I'm terrified of spiders. "
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" In terms of, like, interviews, I used to struggle a lot with interviews; I never knew what to say. "
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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. "
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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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Find
Inspiration
" The Olympics really started motivating me from the very start. That was my dream from the very beginning. "
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" Emma Watson definitely is my celebrity crush. I love 'Harry Potter.' Plus, she's gorgeous, which really helps. "
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Love
Crush
" 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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I Am
Pretty
" I like biology a lot. "
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Biology
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Lot
" That's something I'm actually very interested in doing, helping young skaters. "
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Interested
Doing
" Really, I'm just a normal kid. "
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Kid
Really
" My parents did not come to the U.S. with much; they had a lot of hardship. "
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Hardship
Lot
" Ever since I was a younger skater, I've been working my way to these big jumps. "
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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. "
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" There's always things that I can improve on. "
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I Can
Improve
Always
" When I watch my skating when I was younger, I definitely see all this balletic movement and this artistry come through. "
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Through
" 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. "
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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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" 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. "
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" I have my own life to live. "
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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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