Jason Brown‘s free skate from the 2014 U.S. Championships — “Riverdance” — garnered a few million YouTube views, but few saw a bawling Brown as he went to warm up on the ice.
Brown insisted he was thinking about the PyeongChang Olympics — not the Sochi Games in a month’s time — as he was in third place after the short program. With two Olympic spots available.
“I want to soak this up for 2018,” Brown recalled last spring.
Brown picked up his skates that Sunday afternoon before the biggest program of his 19-year-old life.