Nathan Chen Takes Home The Gold
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APNews - With a nearly perfect free skate on the heels of a record-setting short program, the 22-year-old Yale student walked away with the gold medal at the Beijing Games this week. Nathan Chen has become the first American figure skating champion since Evan Lysacek in 2010 and capped one of the most dominant four-year runs in the history of the sport. “My mom and I grew up quite poor. We really didn’t have much money,” Chen said. “She would just scrap together some dollars to try to pay Rafael Arutyunyan, Chen's coach, and Raf obviously knew about the situation and thanks to the kindness of his heart, was able to just continue taking me in, and taking as much money as we could provide him.” And this past Thursday, Chen was finally able to repay his coach in full with something priceless. “I’m happy. Just emotional,” Arutyunyan said. “He made it.”
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