--- title: Nathan Chen Short Program at Winter Olympics Shocks Internet description: Nathan Chen's disastrous short program at the 2018 Winter Olymipcs has shocked fans on the internet who are heartbroken. canonical: https://time.com/5162283/nathan-chen-olympics-2018-reactions/ author: Ashley Hoffman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-02-16T12:43:00.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:50:42.675Z og:title: The Internet's Heart Is Breaking Over Nathan Chen og:description: The highly anticipated skater's short program has shocked fans og:url: https://time.com/5162283/nathan-chen-olympics-2018-reactions/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt14b1392b39ee5428/698927e4db29876e7325ecbf/gettyimages-918831636.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 5047 og:image:height: 2839 og:image:alt: Figure Skating - Winter Olympics Day 7 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: The Internet's Heart Is Breaking Over Nathan Chen twitter:description: The highly anticipated skater's short program has shocked fans twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt14b1392b39ee5428/698927e4db29876e7325ecbf/gettyimages-918831636.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # The Internet's Heart Breaks for Nathan Chen After His Winter Olympics 2018 Men's Short Program > Sponsored content. 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Harry How—Getty Images by [Ashley Hoffman](https://time.com/author/ashley-hoffman/) ## Ashley Hoffman Feb 16, 2018 12:43 PM UTC Hot off an undefeated season, [Nathan Chen](http://time.com/5162212/olympics-figure-skating-nathan-chen-what-happened/) was favored to capture gold, but the Winter Olympics rookie’s mistakes at Thursday’s figure skating men’s event shocked fans and sunk him to 17th place. The 18-year-old had to follow his once biggest threat, [Japan’s Yuzuru Hanyu](http://time.com/5162157/yuzuru-hanyu-japan-figure-skating-short-program/), who sailed through a sparkling gold medal performance with a jittery showing. Chen faltered on every jump, costing him points for a shockingly low 82.27\. This puts Chen at a severe disadvantage at the bottom of the ranks, so people took to Twitter to say they were heartbroken. Many also urged him on for the upcoming long program on Twitter with words of encouragement. He’s still the first skater to ever land five quadruple jumps in one program, and his fans are sure this is not the last of Chen. Most people just wanted to hug him. > [](https://twitter.com/MsEllyG/status/964372308210012161) > [](https://twitter.com/amyxlia/status/964422546778017792) > [](https://twitter.com/b69me2000/status/964373602324832256) > [](https://twitter.com/NickMcCarvel/status/964363277638619139) > [](https://twitter.com/nyaachi428/status/964474498694070274) > [](https://twitter.com/bianchiprem19/status/964473880520704000) > [](https://twitter.com/Meeleeah/status/964472867424559105) > [](https://twitter.com/lilrunner/status/964471779023642624) > [](https://twitter.com/alura%5Fschaum/status/964470050374799362) > [](https://twitter.com/kookgyux/status/964467530197819392) > [](https://twitter.com/arezze1/status/964467462040424448) > [](https://twitter.com/azayakanablue/status/964467375440412672) > [](https://twitter.com/YasamanSetayesh/status/964364817858412544) > [](https://twitter.com/TheFMinorScale/status/964364741761146880) > [](https://twitter.com/believeinbngtan/status/964368019345428482) He even drew high praise from the likes of former Olympic figure skater Scott Hamilton. > [](https://twitter.com/ScottHamilton84/status/964374923719266304) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5162283/nathan-chen-olympics-2018-reactions/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5162283/nathan-chen-olympics-2018-reactions/"},"headline":"The Internet's Heart Breaks for Nathan Chen After His Winter Olympics 2018 Men's Short Program","datePublished":"2018-02-16T12:43:00.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:50:42.675Z","description":"Nathan Chen's disastrous short program at the 2018 Winter Olymipcs has shocked fans on the internet who are heartbroken.","url":"https://time.com/5162283/nathan-chen-olympics-2018-reactions/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Winter Olympics","onetime","2018 Pyeongchang Olympics"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt14b1392b39ee5428/698927e4db29876e7325ecbf/gettyimages-918831636.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Ashley Hoffman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/ashley-hoffman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt14b1392b39ee5428/698927e4db29876e7325ecbf/gettyimages-918831636.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Figure Skating - Winter Olympics Day 7","caption":"Figure Skating - Winter Olympics Day 7","creditText":"Harry How—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5162283/nathan-chen-olympics-2018-reactions/","name":"The Internet's Heart Breaks for Nathan Chen After His Winter Olympics 2018 Men's Short Program"}}]}] ```