Meet Nathan Chen, The Figure Skater Who Brought Athleticism To Artistry

If you haven’t seen Nathan Chen on the ice, you’ve seen him somewhere else by now. On Super Bowl Sunday, the 18-year-old figure skating phenom was briefly the most watched person in America, starring in an NBC promotional commercial for the Winter Olympics. Chen is also the focus of a United Airlines spot, and resides on countless supermarket shelves, featured on countless boxes of Corn Flakes. It’s still strange for Chen — “When he got on the cereal box, he sent my son a text, ‘Can you believe it?” Cati Snarr said — and his friends and family, seeing the soft-spoken teenager in a series of once-unthinkable situations, like towering over Times Square in a massive Coca-Cola ad.

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