Get to know Nathan Chen: 5 facts about the Olympic figure skating gold-medal contender

For the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, For The Win is helping you get to know some of the star Olympians competing on the world’s biggest stage. Leading up to the Opening Ceremony, we’re highlighting 15 Team USA athletes we think you should get to know. Up first is figure skater Nathan Chen.

Nathan Chen is the Quad King.

Like, that’s actually his nickname because of his incredible range of quadruple figure skating jumps and the number of them he often packs into his routines. What he does on the ice — and particularly above it when he’s soaring through the air — is so incredible that it’s almost impossible to look away.

But despite the 22-year-old skater’s multiple world and U.S. championships, he’s still looking for his first individual Olympic medal, which he could earn at the Winter Olympics in Beijing in February.

From Salt Lake City, Chen is also a statistics and data science major at Yale, but he paused his academics to train full time for the Beijing Games with his longtime coach, Rafael Arutunian, in Irvine, California, according to Team USA. And he’s hoping his second Olympics go better than his first in 2018 in Pyeongchang.

So ahead of the 2022 Beijing Olympics, here are five things to know about Chen.