US Figure Skating Champtionships

Awesome, inspiring, skilled, dynamic, graceful, powerful...these adjectives are inadequate to describe athletes' performances during the U.S. Figure Skating Championships yesterday in host city San Jose, CA. Eighteen-year old Nathan Chen, defending men's champion, showed little signs of his recent illness during an exceptional short program with two quadruple jumps. His score of 104.45 points is the second-highest program tally in nationals history.  

Chen told ESPN, "I try to just make sure that I'm in my zone every competition," he said. "I'll always get nervous regardless of how big or small the competition is. I definitely feel the energy is different than last year [being an Olympic year]. Ultimately, I have to do what I set out to do and focus on my new goals."

NBC Olympics

From NBC Sports, "Adam Rippon and Jason Brown, the 2016 and 2015 U.S. champions, are in second and third with 96.52 and 93.23 points, respectively.

The men’s free skate is Saturday, live on NBCSN and streaming on NBCOlympics.com from 8-11 p.m. ET.

The three-man Olympic team — not necessarily the top three at nationals — will be named Sunday morning, chosen by a committee looking at results from the past year."

Chen Short Program