“I found myself actually astonished by delight,” asarahlarson writes, about watching Nathan Chen skate—“transported beyond my East Village couch, barely believing my eyes.”
), dazzling spins, and terrifying tumbles. Here a skier zooms backward to ascend like a bird; here a snowboarder clonks onto the half-pipe, face sliding down the cold curves. For the first few days, the Winter Olympics were interesting but harrowing; now we’ve achieved emotional blastoff.
Jin Boyang, from Harbin, China, looking like a festive assassin , went first. Jin, a pioneer of the quadruple lutz with a triple toe loop, was greeted with a happy roar; he skated to “Bolero,” building drama as the music did, with the crowd occasionally clapping in rhythm. He executed a quad axel and a quad lutz with grace. Once, he finagled a tricky landing into a hop. Otherwise, to my eyes, he was magnificent. To Weir’s eyes, he was “lacking in terms of skating skills.
The excitement ratcheted up toward the end of the men’s program: the American Jason Brown, from Highland Park, Illinois—who, the commentators frequently reminded us, does not do any quadruple jumps in competition—is exquisitely lovely to watch. I found myself thinking of Fred Astaire. The twenty-year-old Cha Jun-hwan, of South Korea, skated to “Nessun Dorma,” thrillingly and dramatically, temporarily landing in second place even after a rough-looking early fall attempting his quad toe.
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