Nathan Chen: Watch US figure skater break world record at Winter Olympics

Nathan Chen banished the demons of Pyeongchang with a record-breaking short program routine to put himself in control of the men’s figure skating competition at the Capital Indoor Arena in Beijing.

The 22-year-old saw his dreams of individual Olympic gold dashed four years ago after a series of errors in his short program routine, which gave him too much to make up in the concluding free skate.

But this time it was double defending champion Yuzuru Hanyu – bidding to become the first man to win three consecutive titles since 1928 – who stumbled, pulling out of an attempted quadruple salchow and finishing the day in eighth place.

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“I’d say I was pretty close to my best,” said Chen. “Obviously there are always things you