20 Questions with Canadian champion Patrick Chan: On cars, hockey and his four-seam fastball

[Sylvia]

https://theathletic.com/78742/2017/...an-on-cars-hockey-and-his-four-seam-fastball/
Excerpts:

13. When you look ahead to the big award, at the Olympics next year in South Korea, what does the quad mean?
PC: Oh, stress. It gives me a lot of stress and anxiety. The sport of figure skating is changing, by the day. We've got guys, now, doing four or five different types of quads. When we were in Sochi, it was two different types. Now, we're boosted up to three more. It's getting insane. I think it's becoming a little more clear to me what direction the sport is going. I have a hard time keeping up. The new generation is coming in, and that's the generation that is doing the five quads. They're the 16-, 17-year-olds. So I'm a decade older than some of them. It's evolving. You can't say it's either bad or good — it's both.

18. You deferred admission to the University of Toronto: What is next?
PC: Honestly? Not school. At least, not right away. I have so many things I'm looking forward to after my career: Setting up a skating academy in Vancouver, in the Richmond area; possibly getting into real estate; maybe looking into buy property and flipping it. Just having fun. Enjoying the fruits of my labour, and challenging myself differently than I did in skating.

ICYMI yesterday, his 16-minute Facebook Live chat: https://www.facebook.com/teamcanada/videos/10155038687383264/

He's throwing out the ceremonial first pitch before the Toronto Blue Jays baseball game tonight: https://twitter.com/Pchiddy/status/890214515362672642
Eric Radford's reply to Patrick: "just don't embarrass yourself!!"

 

[mollymgr]

Great interview.

 

[The Accordion]

Now I want to know what you have to do to win the Patrick Chan award at his school. Thanks for the links!