--- title: Nathan Chen, Gus Kenworthy, Nina Roth Discuss Fear in Video description: The Team USA Olympians may seem fearless as they compete, but it turns out even world-renowned athletes are scared of some things. canonical: https://time.com/5152894/olympics-2018-team-usa-biggest-fears/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-02-13T15:20:31.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:50:33.974Z og:title: Meet Team USA: What's Your Biggest Fear? og:description: From spiders to rejection og:url: https://time.com/5152894/olympics-2018-team-usa-biggest-fears/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8cf2b61ba7d6406e/698927587cdbacedc7d5bf15/gus.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Gus og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Meet Team USA: What's Your Biggest Fear? twitter:description: From spiders to rejection twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8cf2b61ba7d6406e/698927587cdbacedc7d5bf15/gus.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Let Nathan Chen, Gus Kenworthy and Nina Roth Tell You All About Their Biggest Fears  by [Megan McCluskey](/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Feb 13, 2018 3:20 PM CUT   by [Megan McCluskey](/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Feb 13, 2018 3:20 PM CUT The [Team USA](http://time.com/5142016/team-usa-fringed-gloves-memes-olympics-2018/ "undefined") Olympians may seem fearless as they [fly down the slopes](http://time.com/5150209/olympics-2018-mikael-kingsbury-parents/ "undefined") at breakneck speeds and land [seemingly impossible jumps](http://time.com/5143814/mirai-nagasu-triple-axel-olympics-2018/ "undefined") on one skate blade, but it turns out even world-renowned athletes are scared of some things. For a number of these competitors, such as figure skater Karen Chen and bobsledder Carlo Valdes, their biggest fears revolve around encountering the creepy crawlies—like spiders and snakes—that also spook a large part of the rest of the world. However, some Team USA members have more intangible concerns on the brain. Ice dancing siblings Alex and Maia Shibutani, for example, are worried about not having enough time to accomplish their goals. “There’s never enough time to do everything we want to do” Alex told TIME, with Maia adding, “That’s our shared fear.” Freestyle skier Gus Kenworthy went a darker route, saying that he dreaded the idea of dying alone. Watch the video above to learn more about what Team USA fears most. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5152894/olympics-2018-team-usa-biggest-fears/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5152894/olympics-2018-team-usa-biggest-fears/"},"headline":"Let Nathan Chen, Gus Kenworthy and Nina Roth Tell You All About Their Biggest Fears","datePublished":"2018-02-13T15:20:31.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:50:33.974Z","description":"From spiders to rejection","url":"https://time.com/5152894/olympics-2018-team-usa-biggest-fears/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Winter Olympics","2018 Pyeongchang Olympics"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8cf2b61ba7d6406e/698927587cdbacedc7d5bf15/gus.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Megan McCluskey","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8cf2b61ba7d6406e/698927587cdbacedc7d5bf15/gus.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Gus","caption":"","creditText":"","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/5152894/olympics-2018-team-usa-biggest-fears/","name":"Let Nathan Chen, Gus Kenworthy and Nina Roth Tell You All About Their Biggest Fears"}}]}] ```