[Beijing Winter Olympics, American figure skaters, Chinese account for half of the country] Beijing Winter Olympics, in addition to the brilliant Gu Ailing, among the 8 single figure skaters in the United States, there are 4 Chinese skaters, occupying half of the country.
Nathan Chen, 22, was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, the eldest of five children, and is currently studying at Yale University, majoring in statistics
Karen Chen, 22, was born in Fremont, Bay Area, competed in the 2018 PyeongChang Olympics and is now majoring in human development at Cornell University.
Alysa Liu, 16, was born in Clovis, California, and now lives in Oakland, Bay Area. She became the nation's youngest figure skating champion in 2019 at the age of 13.
Vincent Zhou, 21, was born in San Jose, Bay Area, and is now a student at Brown University. Winner of the 2017 American Figure Skating Championships and the 2017 World Junior Figure Skating Championships. His parents were classmates in Tsinghua's Computer Science Department. Due to the positive test, he finally had no choice but to withdraw from the game.
