How to watch Utahn Nathan Chen go for figure skating gold

Nathan Chen, of the US, competes through the males’s brief program determine skating competitors on the 2022 Winter Olympics, Tuesday, Feb. 8, 2022, in Beijing. Chen is in first place heading into the free skate on the 2022 Winter Olympics.

Natacha Pisarenko, Related Press

All of it comes all the way down to this for Nathan Chen.

After breaking the world document within the particular person brief program with a rating of 113.97 on Monday night time, Chen will attempt to safe his first-ever Olympic gold medal — and the USA’s first gold medal of the 2022 Video games — within the particular person free skate on Wednesday night time.

Chen enters the free skate in first place, practically six factors forward of second-place Yuma Kagiyama of Japan and eight factors forward of third-place Shoma Uno of Japan.

Every skater’s rating from the brief program and the free skate is added collectively. Whoever has the best level whole will win the gold medal, so Chen is in a very good place getting into the lengthy program.

The free skate lasts 4 minutes, in comparison with the two-minute, 40-second runtime of the brief program. Chen holds the world document within the free skate, a rating of 224.92 set on the 2019–20 Grand Prix Remaining.

The 22-year-old’s free skate can be set to “Rocket Man” by Elton John. It’s anticipated to be the identical program that he skated en path to a title on the 2021 U.S. Determine Skating Championships. It can embody 12 deliberate components, together with 5 quadruple flip jumps.

Due to his first-place end within the brief program, Chen will skate final. Skating proper earlier than him can be third-place Uno, then second-place Kagiyama. Meaning Chen will know precisely what rating he must win gold earlier than he skates.

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Methods to watch Nathan Chen within the Olympics determine skating free skate

When: Wednesday, Feb. 9 at 6:30 p.m. MST (Chen is scheduled to skate at 10:15 p.m. MST)

TV: NBC, beginning at 8:40 p.m. MST. USA Community will present the brief program occasion from 6:30-8:20 p.m. MST.

Livestream: NBCOlympics.com (requires cable TV login) or Peacock ($5 per 30 days).