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Fortnite Uncharted: Nathan Drake and Tom Holland skins confirmed

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Fortnite fans have solved an Epic Games puzzle to reveal an Uncharted crossover coming to the game on February 17th. Tom Holland will star in Fortnite for a second time, thanks to a new skin in his portrayal as Nathan Drake in the upcoming Uncharted movie that hits theaters on February 18th. The original Nathan Drake character and Chloe Frazier will also be available in both movie and video game forms inside Fortnite.

Epic Games started teasing the collaboration late on Friday with a treasure hunt website, days after leakers spotted code inside Fortnite that pointed towards an “Uncharted treasure map.” Players had to solve a 14-character password, with some creators getting clues along the way. The password, sicparvismagna, was solved in a matter of minutes, leading to the Uncharted Fortnite crossover trailer.

The trailer only confirms the wearable outfits so far, but there will likely be additional cosmetics as part of this collaboration. Epic Games says the Uncharted items will appear in Fortnite’s item shop on February 17th, just ahead of the Uncharted movie release.



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For Team USA’s Nathan Chen, ‘blood, sweat, tears’ led to Olympic gold

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“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.



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Nathan Chen wins Olympic gold with figure skating master class

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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.

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Nathan Chen wins figure skating gold for US and Olympic redemption | Winter Olympics Beijing 2022

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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.

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Nathan Chen Goes for Gold in Men’s Figure Skating: Live Updates

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Feb. 9, 2022, 8:13 p.m. ET

Credit…Chang W. Lee/The New York Times

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.

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Winter Olympics 2022 — Eileen Gu wins gold, Nathan Chen competes again, U.S. vs. Canada hockey and more live updates in Beijing

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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.

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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.

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

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

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



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Nathan Chen breaks short program record at US figure Skating Championships

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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.

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Ashes 2021-22, 3rd Test, Day 1, Australia vs England Live Score Updates: Pat Cummins, Nathan Lyon Shine As Australia Bowl Out England For 185

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Ashes, 3rd Test, Live Score Updates: Australia bowled out England for a paltry 185.© AFP

England batters yet again failed to make an impression and were packed off 185 in their first innings on Day 1 of the ongoing 3rd Ashes Test at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on Sunday. Pat Cummins and Nathan Lyon were the pick of the Australian bowlers, taking three wickets each. Mitchell Starc took two  while Cameron Green and debutant also picked a wicket each to put Australia in the driver’s seat. For England, captain Joe Root was the standout, scoring yet another fifty. But the rest failed to take make their starts count as the batting line-up crumbed again. Earlier, Australia had won the toss and elected to bowl first. Australia handed Test debut to Victoria pacer Scott Boland while England made four changes from the previous game. England are already trailing 0-2 in the five-match series following defeats in the first and second Test in Brisbane and Adelaide, respectively. (LIVE SCORECARD)

Here are LIVE updates of The Ashes 2021-22 3rd Test Day 1, Australia vs England, from the Melbourne Cricket Ground.

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Nathan Bedford Forrest statue along Interstate 65 removed

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The contentious Nathan Bedford Forrest statue that stood along Interstate 65 in Nashville for more than two decades was taken down Tuesday.

The move comes just over a year after the owner of the statue died. Bill Dorris died in November 2020.

The statue of Forrest, located on private property alongside I-65 south of downtown, portrays the early Ku Klux Klan leader and former Confederate general riding a horse.

A security guard initially told reporters around 10:30 a.m. the statue would be hauled out through a gate off Hogan Road. About 20 minutes later, reporters were told the statue would not be moved but stored in a shed nearby.

A few vehicles left the site and the security guard locked the gate and drove away just before 11 a.m.

“This has been a national embarrassment,” state Sen. Heidi Campbell, D-Nashville, said at the scene of the removal. “I’m so excited. This is great news. It’s just so hurtful to people, not to mention it’s heinously ugly.”

Campbell had petitioned former Gov. Bill Haslam’s administration to take it down. 

Nashville’s Metro Council approved a resolution in July 2017 that asked the Tennessee Department of Transportation to plant vegetation to block the view of the privately owned statue.

The state quickly shot the request down.

Dorris’ will

It is unclear who ordered the statue to be taken down. No announcement regarding why it was taken down or what is next for it was made Tuesday. Dorris’ will has been negotiated in probate court since late last year.

The will intended to leave certain real estate — including the Confederate flag display where the statue sat, an ice house and an artisanal well — to the Sons of Confederate Veterans. He also laid out plans to leave a collection of Gravely brand tractors to a museum and $5 million for the care of his dog, LuLu, a 12-year-old border collie.

The rest of his estate was willed to the Battle of Nashville Trust. But he didn’t have enough cash on hand when he died.

The executor of the will, Trenton Dean Watrous, successfully petitioned the court to bring the LuLu trust down to $30,000 to cover her care through the end of her life.

Watrous could not immediately be reached for comment.

The plan was to sell a trailer park on Hill Road that Dorris owned to satisfy debts against the estate, according to a court order filed in August.

Companies 710 Hill Partners and Riverside Park, two Tennessee-based general partners, agreed to buy the property for $690,000 in August, and the sale was finalized in October, property records show.

Dorris’ estate still owns the Hogan Road property where the statue sits. Under the terms of the will, the Sons of Confederate Veterans would retain the deed to the specific sections of the Hogan Road property where the statue sat as long as they keep it in good condition.

Court documents show a tense relationship between the executor and Dorris before his death, as well as a claim the original will was missing for nearly a month after his death.

An attorney for family members involved in the court proceedings, Cathryn Armistead, said Watrous once tried to “lure” Dorris to a care facility, causing a “breakdown in relations” between the pair.

Watrous’ attorneys, led by John P. Rodgers, denied there was any wrongdoing in a back-and-forth over attorney fees.

Confederate Reckoning: The South grapples with its past

Pink paint

Dorris’ Forrest memorial has been shot at six times and vandalized other times, he told The Tennessean in 2017.

The statue was vandalized and painted pink that same year.

Before the 2016 presidential election, someone placed a sign that read “Trump 2016, Make AMERIKKKA Great Again” on a fence on state right-of-way property near the statue. State officials removed the sign shortly afterward.

The bust

In July, a bust of Forrest installed in the Tennessee Capitol was removed from the building, loaded onto a truck and driven away.

A crew of workers delivered the bust to the Tennessee State Museum, where it is on display with additional context about Forrest’s life.

The removal of the Forrest bust followed years of protests and pressure by activists, but is something that became a reality last summer when Gov. Bill Lee declared it was time for the bust to be relocated.

In July, the Sons of Confederate Veterans reinterred Forrest’s remains in Columbia.

Almost 2,500 SCV members and guests attended the burial.

The privately held reinternment ceremony — only attended by members of the SCV and their families — marked an end to a saga of legal proceedings sparked when a statue depicting the general and slave owner on horseback was removed from Health Science Park in Memphis by the Memphis Greenspace nonprofit in 2017.

The statue was acquired by SCV in 2019.

Natalie Neysa Alund is based in Nashville at The Tennessean and covers breaking news across the South for the USA TODAY Network. Reach her at nalund@tennessean.com and follow her on Twitter @nataliealund.



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Ragdoll and Veterans Day picks

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Lucy Hale in Ragdoll (Photo: Luke Varley/AMC); Hosea Chanchez in The Game (Photo: Josh Stringer/Paramount+)

Here’s what’s happening in the world of television for Thursday, November 11. All times are Eastern. 

Top picks

Ragdoll (AMC+, 3:01 a.m., series premiere): Ragdoll is catnip for fans of true crime and serial killer mysteries. Based on Daniel Cole’s book of the same name, this thriller serves up a grotesque case. Six people have been killed and dismembered, their body parts sewn together in a gruesome union. DI Emily Baxter (Thalissa Teixiera), DS Nathan Rose (Henry Lloyd-Hughes), and rookie DS Lake Edmonds (Lucy Hale) team up to bring down the killer. Ragdoll isn’t as much about the case as it is about those investigating it. The solid first episode introduces two of the leads: Nathan is a tortured soul with a surprising connection to the murderer, as his name is next on the kill list.

The outing features unexpected revelations about Nathan’s past, with Lloyd-Hughes successfully teetering between unhinged and distressed. Hale makes the move to dark dramas with self-assurance. The pilot’s best setup is the friction between Lake and Nathan, but Teixera’s Emily gets the short shift in the process. The show’s trajectory seems mapped out already, as the killer has six names on the list and Ragdoll season one has six episodes. But Ragdoll stitches up a pretty fascinating story early on, and there’s enough suspense to beckon fans of the genre. [Saloni Gajjar]

The Game (Paramount+, 3:01 a.m.): This reboot/revival from Mara Brock Akil comes back with ten new episodes in Las Vegas rather than San Diego. Tim Daly and Toby Sandeman join the cast, as do Wendy Raquel Robinson (Insecure), Hosea Chanchez (Black Lightning), Adriyan Rae (Chicago Fire). All seasons of The Game’s original run are also on Paramount+.

Wild cards

It’s Veterans Day! François Truffaut said there was no such thing as an anti-war film, but maybe there’s an anti-war TV show in M*A*S*H, which is streaming on Hulu.

If you’re looking more for historical accuracy (which some films love to eschew for glory), then the WWII era, Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg-produced Band Of Brothers and The Pacific are on HBO Max.

And finally, there’s Greta Gerwig’s Little Women, set during the Civil War era (steaming on Hulu with a Starz subscription), and Testament Of Youth (streaming on Hulu), based on Vera Brittain’s WWI-set memoir. The latter stars several English stars that are a bit mind-boggling to watch in this context, and Alicia Vikander in one of her best roles.

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