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China Covid ills go from bad to chronically worse
HONG KONG, Nov 28 (Reuters Breakingviews) – Protests across China underscore a rising fear among people that President Xi Jinping’s stringent pandemic restrictions may be here to stay. Unfortunately, two squandered years to vaccinate vulnerable groups and bolster hospital resources validate those anxieties.
Since the start of the pandemic, infections and deaths in the People’s Republic have been kept at less than one per one million people, earning Beijing precious political capital despite the enormous social and economic costs. Still, new daily cases hit over 40,000 on Nov. 27. Cities accounting for 65% of the country’s GDP are under some sort of lockdown as of Friday, per Goldman Sachs analysts.
Any end to the near-daily mandatory Covid tests and strict quarantine rules will be bumpy due to a huge unvaccinated population. As of November, about 27 million citizens aged 60 and above have not been jabbed against Covid, Breakingviews calculated from official data, and another 36 million elderly people have yet to receive their second dose. One May study by Chinese researchers projected an uncontrolled Omicron spread would result in a death rate of 1.1 per 1,000 people over a six-month period, nearly double the rate in the United States from December 2021 to April 2022. The same study found that demand for intensive care unit beds in the above scenario would be a whopping 15.6 times China’s existing capacity.
The shortfall is in part because a significant chunk of fiscal resources has gone into measures such as purchasing vast amounts of tests, rather than upgrading healthcare infrastructure. National government medical and healthcare spending jumped 22% in the first 10 months of this year from the same period in 2019, to 1.75 trillion yuan ($243 billion). Nomura estimates China could be spending up to 2.3% of GDP on testing alone if 90% of Chinese people are required to test every two days.
Building and maintaining quarantine facilities will need financing too: in one case, a city in the eastern Shandong province has proposed a bond issuance dedicated to the cause, predicting China’s Covid outbreaks will last for at least another five years, per Chinese media.
While many countries around the world are short on healthcare capacity, Beijing’s policy position until now means it has more to lose politically from deaths than other governments that have endured the pain of reopening. That narrows China’s options.
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Hundreds of demonstrators in Shanghai shouted and jostled with police on Nov. 27 as protests over China’s stringent Covid-19 restrictions flared for a third day following a deadly apartment fire in Xinjiang, Reuters reported. The wave of civil disobedience has spread to other cities including Beijing.
Officials in Urumqi, the capital of China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, held a news conference in the early hours of Nov. 26 to deny Covid-19 measures had hampered escape and rescue of residents in a fire that killed at least 10. Many of Urumqi’s 4 million residents have been under some of the country’s longest lockdowns, barred from leaving their homes for as long as 100 days, the Reuters report said.
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Tasty Steve and James Chen revealed as in-game commentators for Street Fighter 6
Capcom just revealed two new in-game commentators who will be featured in Street Fighter 6: Steve “Tasty Steve” Scott and James Chen.
These two will join fellow English speaking commentator Jeremy “Vicious” Lopez as well as the game’s Japanese commentator, Aru. Check out the reveal trailer below.
This was revealed at the Evo 2022 Street Fighter 6 commentator panel Friday evening. After just a few minutes of introductions, the panel addressed the fact that there were a few empty chairs up on stage. They proceeded to roll the trailer to reveal both Chen and Scott before welcoming them both to join them.
Chen noted that this is very much in step with his long time dream of becoming a cartoon voice actor, but went on to express that this particular venture might be even better.
Here in the trailer you can hear a few of the clips we’ll be hearing while playing Street Fighter 6 (there is an option to turn off in-game commentary if you wish). And yes, you know James Chen’s trademark “Will it kill?” is most definitely included.
Time will tell if Capcom plans to add any additional commentators to Street Fighter 6 before it launches some time next year for PlayStation 4/5, PC, and Xbox Series X/S. One does have to wonder if additional languages or more Japanese commentators will be featured.
Let us know what you think of this reveal. Whose voice are you looking forward to hearing most while playing SF6?
For Team USA’s Nathan Chen, ‘blood, sweat, tears’ led to Olympic gold
“A lot of years of work. A lot of people supporting me, a lot of — I know it’s cliche — but blood, sweat and tears, (over) just many, many years,” said the 22-year-old, whose energetic routine in the long program set him well above the competition.
Chen was quick to give credit for his success to his mother, thanking her in an Instagram post showing a photo of Chen as a small boy in his mother’s arms, clutching a golden medal with a red, white and blue ribbon.
In his interview with CNN, Chen called his mom, Hetty Wang, the “hardest working person I’ve ever met.” He said her support — including working through the family’s financial challenges — was what made his career possible.
He recalled how, when he was around 10 years old, she found a way for Chen to work with a coach in California, while the family was living hundreds of miles away in Salt Lake City, Utah.
“We weren’t really in a great financial place to be able to move to California…(and) ice time is significantly cheaper in Salt Lake than it is in California. But she still strapped together as many dollars as she could and would drive me from Utah to California, back to Utah from California, over and over and over,” Chen said.
“Any hour of the day, whether it’s 3 a.m., she was just chugging along in the car, getting me to my training sessions, and it was just, like, unreal,” he said.
Chen also credits his own work ethic and true love for his sport to his mother’s parenting style — which he said did not fall into the mold of the “tiger mom” stereotype.
“It was a mix of business and fun. She holds a very high standard for all of us. But within that standard, she wants us to enjoy what it is that we’re doing,” Chen said, referring to himself and his four siblings.
“I think having that balance allowed me to love the sport figure skating as much as I do now, but still be able to accomplish the goals that I set out for myself,” he said.
Chen told reporters Thursday that his win held special meaning because it took place in Beijing — the city where his mother grew up and where his parents met.
Chen’s victory was also a redemption after a disappointing finish in PyeongChang in the 2018 Winter Games, when he landed fifth in the individual competition and earned bronze in the team event.
Moving past that performance was a driver in these Olympic Games, Chen said.
“I definitely wanted to be able to get past that. I wanted to be able to have two short programs that I felt very proud of and fulfilled by, and I’m really glad that I was able to have that experience here. It’s been a dream of mine to make it to this stage and I never really thought that it would truly be possible,” he said.
In the four years since, Chen’s record has given him reason for confidence. He racked up three straight world championships and sealed a 6th consecutive US title to arrive in Beijing as a favorite.
But Chen still stressed that managing emotions — keeping himself “calm and collected” — was a key part of doing his best on the ice.
“I try not to get let emotions get the better of me, because I feel that I can control what I do on the ice the best when I’m in a cool, calm, collected state of mind,” he said.
“Of course I get emotional and I think that’s also part of sport too, sometimes you can let emotion get the better of you (and it) does actually help you, as long as you can figure out a way to get back into where you need to be.”
But Chen did not show any nerves as he glided over the ice on Thursday, as the US favorite to win gold after setting a new short program world record two days earlier. He ran a total of five quad jumps — a natural for a skater nicknamed the quad king — to a mix that included Elton’s John’s Rocket Man.
Chen later received a nod from the legendary British singer-songwriter, with John posting on Twitter his congratulations to the skater “for winning Gold skating to Rocket Man.”
Chen also opened up about missing the opportunity to stand on the Olympic podium after his team won silver in Monday’s figure skating event.
Team USA won silver in the event after being defeated by the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC), however the medal ceremony was delayed on Tuesday over a failed drugs test scandal involving Russian skater Kamila Valieva.
“The medal ceremony is definitely a very special part of the Olympics, and for those that should get a medal, I truly hope that they can. Whatever happens happens, but I do hope that we will have this opportunity to share that as a team,” Chen told CNN.
“There’s certainly a lot of variables that are coming to play, but at the end of the day, all I can really control is how much I can do. And certainly, as athletes, you want to be able to have as fair playing field as possible,” Chen said when asked about the case.
As for what’s next after reaching his Olympic dream, Chen said he is looking forward to returning to his undergraduate studies at Yale University, where he is pursuing a statistics and data science degree — a program he took a break from in order to prepare for the Games.
“Having had spent so much time of my life pursuing this passion of skating hasn’t really allowed me the opportunity to explore outside of the sport as much as I would like. I’m excited to go back to college and see what else the world has for me and try to find passions outside of skating,” he said.
And while he said his passion for skating remains, what he decides to do with his skating career “will be determined in the near future.”
“Right now I’m just happy in this moment,” he said.
Nathan Chen wins Olympic gold with figure skating master class
Chen, who had been the favorite going into Thursday’s event at the Beijing Winter Games, pulled off his win with a long program packed with moves to show off the technical prowess that has earned the 22-year-old the nickname of the “quad king.”
He also became the first American since Evan Lysacek in 2010 to win a men’s figure skating gold medal.
“It means the world. I’m just so happy,” Chen said following the win, adding there were “too many emotions to process”.
“It’s a whirlwind right now. I had a blast out there.”
Chen’s long program at Beijing’s Capital Indoor Stadium opened with a quadruple flip, followed by a triple toe loop. He nailed every jump and move, with a total of five quad jumps, including a quadruple lutz.
“Of course, there are certainly many things I could have done better, but overall I was very happy I was able to do the program that I put down,” the skater said.
Chen’s joyful and energetic routine was set to a medley of songs, including Elton John’s “Rocket Man.” Every jump he performed was met with roaring cheers and claps from athletes and other spectators in the “closed loop” side of the stadium — though the other side, holding Chinese spectators, remained largely silent, according to CNN reporters in the stadium.
The performance placed Chen well at the lead with a score of 218.63, combined with his short program score for a winning total of 332.60. Two Japanese skaters take the podium behind him.
Eighteen-year-old Yuma Kagiyama came in at 310.05 points for silver in his first Olympics, and Shoma Uno, who won silver in 2018 PyeongChang Games, took bronze with a score of 293. Japanese all-time great Yuzuru Hanyu, who fell attempting the fabled quadruple axel in his free skate, came in a disappointing fourth.
This has been a dream Olympics for Team USA’s Chen, who also set a new short program world record in the men’s figure skating event Tuesday, putting him in prime position for Thursday’s golden finish. But he also said the Games’ location in Beijing held special meaning — as it was the city where his mother grew up and where his parents, who later immigrated to the US, met.
“I know that they did everything that they could to give us — I’m the youngest of five — to give all of us…opportunities to pursue (our dreams), without having many resources themselves,” he said.
“It certainly has not been easy for them,” he said, recalling his mother helping him in his own early training and struggles to afford coaches.
Chen also said that as a kid growing up in Salt Lake City he found “inspiration” in Asian-American figure skating star and two-time Olympic medalist Michelle Kwan.
“Having athletes that look like you certainly gives you the hope that you can do the same,” Chen said.
He is the seventh man to win gold for the United States in men’s singles skating, according to the Olympic website.
The win is also a reprieve for Chen, who gave a disappointing performance at the Pyeongchang Games in 2018, landing fifth in the individual competition, though leaving with a bronze medal in the team event.
In the four years since, Chen has risen, racking up three straight world championships and sealing a 6th consecutive US title to arrive in Beijing as a favorite.
It’s an accomplishment that the skater has made while pursuing a statistics and data science degree at Yale — a program he took a temporary break from in order to prepare for the Games.
Chen has credited his more recent successes with a balance in his focus between sports and other pursuits.
On Thursday after his gold-medal win, Chen said he was looking forward to returning to his studies in August, but as for skating, “I’ll take some time to think,” he said.
Nathan Chen wins figure skating gold for US and Olympic redemption | Winter Olympics Beijing 2022
Nathan Chen left no doubt, making good on his long-held promise to finally take hold of figure skating’s ultimate prize.
The world’s most dominant skater over the past 47 months roared to the Olympic men’s title on Thursday, winning by more than 22 points after a mesmerizing long program that included five quadruple jumps and a pair of triples.
Chen, skating last after Tuesday’s record-breaking short programme, earned a standing ovation after completing a near-flawless routine an Elton John medley to finish with an overall score of 332.60, three off his world record and more than enough to hold off Japanese rivals Yuma Kagiyama, who won silver with a score of 310.05, and Shoma Uno, whose 293.00 was good for a bronze to go with his silver from four years ago.
Moving across the ice with athleticism and pace in a Vera Wang-designed galaxy-print costume befitting of his ascent into the cosmos of the sport’s all-time greats, the 22-year-old from southern California by way of Salt Lake City captured the lone prize missing from his trophy cabinet and finally put to rest the demons of his catastrophic Olympic debut back in 2018.
Chen nailed his opening quad flip-triple toeloop combination and quad flip before stumbling on his quad salchow but hanging on. “I had a little struggle on the [salchow],” he said. “Throughout the past two weeks but also two minutes before I skated, the triple sal felt really off, so I was a little worried about that. But I was happy to make that happen, and the rest felt great.”
His only substantial miscue came on the fifth quad of the program when he popped the closing triple of a planned quad toeloop-single euler-triple flip combination. But Chen immediately roared back with a triple axel followed with a triple lutz-triple toeloop combination to pile on the points and leave his Japanese rivals in the dust.
“Of course, there are certainly many things I could have done better, but overall I was very happy I was able to do the program that I put down,” Chen said immediately after. “It means the world. I’m just so happy.”
Four years ago, Chen arrived in Pyeongchang on a tailwind of hype as the joint-favorite with Japanese superstar Yuzuru Hanyu, but finished in fifth after dismal short programme where he tumbled to the ice on his opening quadruple lutz, failed to complete his required combination and was unable to land a single jump cleanly. He settled for fifth overall while Hanyu became first men’s skater to defend an Olympic gold in 66 years.
Since then, Chen has dominated the circuit like few skaters in recent memory – topping the podium in three straight world championships, three head-to-head meetings with Hanyu and all but one of the 17 competitions he’s entered overall – while expanding his repertoire to push the sport’s outer technical limits.
It all came to head on Thursday as the typically reserved Chen motored through his program with joy and brio, even flashing a smile halfway through and the long-sought gold already in his grasp.
Chen has gently pushed back on the redemption narrative throughout the run-up to Beijing, preferring to frame his journey in terms of personal fulfillment. But the outcome stands regardless of the framing: Chen becomes the seventh American man to win Olympic gold in men’s figure skating and the first since 2010.
One of the prestige fixtures of any Winter Olympics was billed for months as the climax of figure skating’s most compelling rivalry in a generation. In one corner: Chen, who has won all but one competition he has entered since the 2018 Olympics. In the other: Hanyu, the two-time defending Olympic gold medallist who inspires a near-religious fervour both in his native Japan and beyond.
But the 26-year-old Hanyu, who entered the Beijing Olympics under a cloud of uncertainty after missing the entire Grand Prix season due to an injury suffered in a November training fall, entered Thursday’s free skate in eighth place after his lowest short programme score in three years and needed something extraordinary to even get within touching distance of the podium.
He didn’t wait long to unveil it on Thursday, attempting the quadruple axel on his opening pass, the four-and-a-half-revolution jump that has never been landed in competition. But he under-rotated it and fell to the ice, then fell again moments later on his quad salchow. From there he showed impressive fight to finish with an overall score of 283.21 that remained in gold medal position until the final three skaters knocked him down to fourth.
“I think I am pushing the boundary today,” Hanyu said. “No matter how hard no matter how unimaginable, I want to push a little bit more for those who have expectations in me.”
A socially distanced crowd of several thousand spectators took in Thursday’s competition in the 54-year-old indoor arena that hosted the famous ping-pong diplomacy matches credited with helping thaw US-China relations in the early 1970s.
Nathan Chen Goes for Gold in Men’s Figure Skating: Live Updates
Nathan Chen’s score of 113.97 points in the men’s short program at the Beijing Olympics on Tuesday set a world record and also set him up perfectly for a shot at the coveted prize that has eluded him.
Standing in his way on Thursday will be two Japanese skaters: Yuma Kagiyama, an 18-year-old former child television and movie star who knows how to perform with flair, and Shoma Uno, 24, one of only two skaters who have beaten Chen since early 2018. Kagiyama was second in the short program, 5.85 points behind Chen. Uno, the Olympic silver medalist in 2018, was third, 8.07 points back.
Competing in his first Olympics, Kagiyama got the mostly Chinese crowd on Tuesday to clap along to his entertaining performance to Michael Bublé’s “When You’re Smiling,” as he skated a high-power, high-energy program.
Uno, who skated to classical music, was just as stunning. Even when he put his hand down on the second jump of his quadruple-triple combination, it didn’t hurt his score much.
Afterward, Uno sent a warning to his competitors: “I will add more complicated and difficult jumps in my free skating.”
Conspicuously missing from those top competitors was the two-time defending Olympic champion Yuzuru Hanyu, one of Chen’s top rivals, and the man who held the previous short-program world record. Hanyu, in a sparkly outfit studded with crystals, finished a distant eighth on Tuesday, 18.82 points behind Chen. A hole in the ice was to blame, he said.
Hanyu opened his program by bailing out of a quadruple salchow. The crowd gasped.
“That was some accident but it’s OK,” he said, explaining that there was a divot in the ice from what was perhaps another skater’s toe pick. “I have one more chance. I have lots of time with the music and many jumps in there, so I can be my best.”
Hanyu bounced back quickly to land a quadruple, triple-jump combination and a triple axel during the kind of artistically beautiful performance for which he is known. But the missed quad, which earned zero points, cost him. He is so far behind Chen and the other leaders that it will be a long shot for him to win any medal.
Winter Olympics 2022 — Eileen Gu wins gold, Nathan Chen competes again, U.S. vs. Canada hockey and more live updates in Beijing
Tuesday in Beijing at the 2022 Winter Olympics has already been jam-packed with excitement as Eileen Gu won the first-ever Olympic gold in freeski big air and Ryan Cochran-Siegle earned silver in the men’s Super-G, 50 years after his mom won a slalom gold.
In figure skating, the U.S. team lost one of its biggest stars Monday morning when Vincent Zhou withdrew from competition after testing positive for COVID-19. But three-time world champion Nathan Chen will start his quest for individual gold in the men’s short program. Two-time Olympic champion Yuzuru Hanyu began with a major error, but 2018 silver medalist Shoma Uno and his Japanese teammate Yuma Kagiyama excelled.
If you’re on the East Coast, drink some extra coffee to stay up late — because it’s rivalry time in Beijing: Canada vs. Team USA in women’s hockey.
Despite dominating play for most of the first period, the U.S. left for intermission down 1-0 to archrival Canada. The Americans buzzed the Canadian zone for nearly 10 minutes, twice hitting the post with shots. But a cross-checking penalty on Team USA’s Caroline Harvey led to a power-play goal by Canada’s Brianne Jenner, scoring at 14:10 of the first period on a tic-tac-toe passing play from Sarah Fillier and Marie-Phillip Poulin. The Americans had a 14-3 shot advantage when Canada scored, and finished the period with a 16-5 shot advantage.
We’ve got updates on all the action here:
Gu becomes the first Olympic champion in freeski big air
By landing two of the biggest tricks in women’s freeskiing, Eileen Gu captured the win in the sport’s Olympic debut in Beijing. In fact, only two women in the world, Gu and Tess Ledeux of France, have ever landed 1620 spins in a freeskiing contest and both did so Tuesday to go 1-2 in big air finals. Gu had never landed the trick in competition. When she did so on her third jump, she screamed, skied to the bottom of the landing and dropped to her knees.
“I’m not crying,” Gu said into the television camera. “I’m definitely not crying.” Gu’s third-run score saw her jump into first place above Ledeux, who had landed the double cork 1620 on her first run. When Gu saw the score, she grabbed her helmet and fought back tears. She took off her skis and bowed to the crowd. Then she waited. In her third and final attempt, Ledeux, who won the X Games big air event for the third time just a few days before flying to Beijing, threw a massive switch 1440, but landed on one ski and was unable to reclaim the lead. Swiss skier Mathilde Gremauld finished third. Darian Stevens, the only U.S. skier to make the final, finished 11th.
EILEEN GU WITH A MASSIVE FINAL RUN!!
She nails a double cork 1620 to take over the first place spot! #WinterOlympics | @NBCOlympics pic.twitter.com/MKRgttOFvB
— On Her Turf (@OnHerTurf) February 8, 2022
Born in San Francisco to a Chinese mother and American father and raised by her mother and maternal grandmother, Gu opted to compete for China at these Games. With the win, Gu ties China’s gold medal haul (3) from the Pyeongchang Olympics — and that’s with two events left to compete: freeski slopestyle and halfpipe.
“That was the best moment of my life. The happiest moment, day, whatever — of my life. I just cannot believe what just happened,” she said after. — Alyssa Roenigk
Two-time gold medalist Hanyu makes costly mistake early
Yuzuru Hanyu, the reigning two-time Olympic champion, made an extremely uncharacteristic mistake in the much-hyped showdown between him and Nathan Chen. He was supposed to do a quad salchow for his opening jump and instead popped it — meaning he registered zero points for that element. He was graceful and majestic as always throughout the rest of the skate but scored only 95.15 points. He was visibly upset as he left the ice. — Elaine Teng
Japan’s Yuzuru Hanyu currently sits in second place in the men’s singles short program.
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Men’s downhill is back on the podium
Fifty years after his mother, Barbara Ann, won a slalom gold in the 1972 Sapporo Games, Ryan Cochran-Siegle wins silver in the men’s Super-G after a 1:19:98 run. After charging to the finish, Cochran-Siegle said “What’s up, Vermont? I hope it holds,” to the camera.
Cochran-Siegle, 29, and in his second Olympics, was in the lead when he went past the third checkpoint of the men’s downhill event, but finished four-hundredths of a second behind Austria’s Matthias Mayer, who defended his Olympic title. Norway’s Aleksander Aamodt Kilde picked up bronze.
Cochran-Siegle is the sixth member of his family to compete in an Alpine event at the Olympics. At the 2018 Olympics, the U.S. men’s alpine team failed to make the podium for the first time in 20 years. — Aish Kumar
Take a bow, Donovan Carrillo
Already the first Mexican figure skater to compete in the Olympic Games in 30 years, Donovan Carrillo made even more history for his country on Tuesday by becoming the first skater from his country to qualify for the free skate portion of the event. The 22-year-old Carrillo dazzled those watching in the building and around the world with a high-energy performance, which included a successful quadruple toe loop and a triple axel, set to a medley of music by Santana.
He earned a 79.69 score for his efforts, and immediately qualified for Thursday’s free skate. He couldn’t hide his excitement after completing his routine, and after hearing his score, smiled and raised his hands in jubilation.
Carrillo, who was a flag bearer for Mexico in the Opening Ceremony, practices at an ice rink in a shopping mall in Leon, Mexico. He already owns the record for best result at a world championship by a Mexican skater after finishing in 20th place in 2021. — D’Arcy Maine
Dreams do come true! 😍
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— Olympics (@Olympics) February 8, 2022
Injury update on O’Brien
Team USA skier Nina O’Brien, who was carried off on a stretcher after crashing across the finish line of the second run of her giant slalom event on Monday, posted on Instagram that she had surgery Monday night Beijing time to “stabilize her tibia, which unfortunately was an open fracture through my leg.”
She added that she would further care back in the U.S.
“I keep replaying it in my head, wishing I’d skied those last few gates differently. But here we are,” she wrote in her Instagram post. “I want to say thank you to everyone who’s taken care of me.”
O’Brien, 24, lost her balance close to the finish line of her run. –Aish Kumar
Peng Shuai watches Eileen Gu
Tennis star Peng Shuai was spotted at the Big Air Shougang venue with IOC President Thomas Bach. They watched Eileen Gu win her gold medal in women’s freeski big air. Bach told the press that Peng is leaving the bubble today and going into the required quarantine to leave the Olympic closed loop and enter the general population of China.
Event schedule (all times ET)
8:15 p.m.: Men’s figure skating — singles short program
9 p.m.: Women’s freestyle skiing — big air final
10 p.m.: Men’s alpine skiing — Super-G
11:00 p.m.: Women’s hockey preliminary — U.S. vs. Canada
5:30 a.m.: Men’s speed skating — 1,500 meters
8:35 a.m.: Women’s luge — singles finals
Nathan Chen breaks short program record at US figure Skating Championships
Performing to music from “La Boheme,” Chen scored 115.39 points — breaking the record of 114.13 he had set in 2020 — to take the lead in the short program and move closer to a sixth consecutive national title.
The 22-year-old Chen’s short program included a quad flip and a quad lutz-triple toe loop as he finished ahead of Vincent Zhou’s score of 112.78 and Ilia Malinin’s 103.46 — personal best scores for both those skaters, too.
“This US Championships short program was insane,” said Chen as he reflected on the high-scoring nature of the competition in Nashville.
“Every guy laid down an amazing program, so it’s a huge honor to be up here with these two guys, and I’m happy to start the competition off this way.”
Zhou skated to Josh Groban’s “Vincent (Starry, Starry Night)” and, like Chen, executed a quad lutz-triple toe loop, while Malinin, making his championship debut, performed to David Cook’s version of “Billie Jean.”
Chen, a three-time world champion, is heavy favorite to take gold at the Beijing Winter Olympics next month, where he will face competition from Japan’s double Olympic champion Yuzuru Hanyu.
Having placed fifth at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, Chen is now in pole position to qualify for Beijing alongside two other male singles skaters ahead of the free skate on Sunday.
Following the 2018 Olympics, Chen embarked on a three-year international winning streak which came to an end with a third-place finish at Skate America in Las Vegas last October.