Nathan needed a decent costume to skate properly.
I didn't care much for any of the Vera Wang costume aesthetic either on Evan L or on Nathan. However, Nathan sure has a nice body and he looked good in every outfit.
But I don't think any Wang outfit he wore for the sp suited the music of the short program. He may as well have kept wearing the nice shirt and pants for the sp that he started the season with, which looked comfortable and as cool as the sp music. I like the red long-sleeved top Nathan wore at his first event in the pre-season in Salt Lake City for the sp. The one for the fp yesterday was generally okay for what the music was about and not as distracting as the sp outfit or the shiny zipper he wore on one of the Nationals costumes. It's not a Vera Wang fashion show is it? Mixed reviews for Vera. If Nathan wants to swag more skating fashion down the road, I hope he finds a new hip young designer he can collaborate with.
Bezic said similar things to what I already voiced in this and other threads. I'm glad Bezic put it out there. I don't generally agree with her on everything, but the majority of succinct points in her essay really needed to be said, and I'm glad she said it. She's not directly involved right now as a commentator or coach, so she's got nothing to lose. More wise voices need to be heard in this sport, instead of the usual status quo going along to get along.
... I hope Nathan does not limit himself to one Oly quad ... I know it's selfish of me, but he is so gifted with a talent so rare, and I want to see him grow as a skater and an artist. I still believe in him.
Oh, that's exactly right, but
the sport of figure skating simply does not deserve this young man nor his rare talent!!! I never stopped believing in Nathan Chen.
I haven't looked at any of the coverage yet in the aftermath of men's fp, but I can just imagine the storylines.
Nathan is no different in terms of his abilities now than he was coming into Pyeongchang in my book. I felt the same way I always did about him after the Team Event sp and after the individual event sp. Nothing changed for me. I was never disappointed in him, but
I was upset for him because of what I've seen happening around him in the reactions to what he accomplished last season, and then conversely in the reactions to his failure initially to perform up to his talent, largely as a result of the huge additional Olympic hype pressure placed on his shoulders.
If he hadn't been able to relax and perform in the fp, I would still think of him the same way I always have. In fact, regardless of how Nathan would have performed in the fp, I already admired him that much more, knowing he was going through a tough time and still gutsing it out in practices, trying to shake his nerves. I definitely wanted to hug him after his men's event sp when I saw his face in the kiss 'n cry (my motherly protective instincts coming to the fore). But Nathan took it like a man. He went through the fire of a hot spotlight, and he stands ever that much taller. He's a gamer, and he's a young man who faced all of this stuff, including Andrea Joyce and her microphone, head on with grace and dignity.
Nathan retweeted that tweet. It looks like the retweet came after his skate, though. Maybe that's what he was doing when we saw him with his phone.
Please get your paws off Nathan Chen! I wouldn't give drat-worthy NBC the time of day. Oh well, Nathan has to be polite to them in public. What is this though with the need to rub, touch and grab on Nathan? 
He needed the hug after the sp performance, not after the fp you hype machine NBC!!! Let Nathan breathe and get out of his face with all the hindsight blather. 
That must be why Raf's cryptic comment to Hersh: "It's complicated." I agree with Lease that Raf really cares about Nathan. It would be an absolute shame should Nathan's family pressure him to leave Raf. I can imagine now that it was Nathan's family who advised him not to speak with Brian Boitano. 
He'll get his individual Olympic medal one day! 
SLAY!! 
