Nathan Chen of the United States absolutely rocks his program. He performed even better than his short program in the team event. He punches the air at the finish and puts his N95 mask on as soon as he walks off the ice. Your gold medal favorite, folks.
He scores 113.97 points — an ocean ahead of second place. Wow.
Big exhale for Canada’s Keegan Messing now that he’s here in Beijing and finally on Olympic ice. He tested positive for the coronavirus before getting on a plane for China and had to have four subsequent negative test results to be allowed into the country.