It was a normal Tuesday for figure skater Karen Chen ’25, carving out a brief moment between her pre-med classes to check her phone. Two years removed from her stint at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing that saw the US Figure Skating Team in second place, Chen is now an Olympic gold medalist. “They’re congratulating me for something that happened two years ago.”This marks the first-ever team Olympic skating gold medal for the United States, with Chen winning alongside teammates Evan Bates, Nathan Chen, Madison Chock, Zachary Donohue, Brandon Frazier, Madison Hubbell, Alexa Knierim and Vincent Zhou. I can’t even put it into words — and I think I’m still processing it since it just happened really recently,” Chen said. Chen is the first Cornellian to ever medal in an Olympic figure skating competition and the fifth to earn gold at the 2022 Winter Olympics.

Source: Daily Sun February 10, 2024 11:07 UTC