{"id":5976,"date":"2013-10-31T19:51:25","date_gmt":"2013-10-31T23:51:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/figureskatersonline.com\/news\/?p=5976"},"modified":"2017-09-04T08:42:47","modified_gmt":"2017-09-04T12:42:47","slug":"2012-u-s-junior-mens-champion-nathan-chen-joins-figure-skaters-online-launches-official-website","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/figureskatersonline.com\/news\/2013\/10\/31\/2012-u-s-junior-mens-champion-nathan-chen-joins-figure-skaters-online-launches-official-website\/","title":{"rendered":"2012 U.S. Junior Men&#8217;s Champion Nathan Chen Joins Figure Skaters Online; Launches Official Website"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><span> <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-5980\" style=\"border: 1px solid black; margin: 3px;\" alt=\"13silver-nc1\" src=\"http:\/\/figureskatersonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/13silver-nc1.jpg\" width=\"233\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/figureskatersonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/13silver-nc1.jpg 233w, https:\/\/figureskatersonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/13silver-nc1-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 233px) 100vw, 233px\" \/>Figure Skaters Online is pleased to welcome Nathan Chen with the launch of his new official website at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.figureskatersonline.com\/nathanchen\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.figureskatersonl<wbr \/>ine.com\/nathanchen\/<\/a>.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span>\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span>The 14-year-old Chen is a three-time U.S. national champion at the novice (2010 &amp; 2011) and junior (2012) levels. In addition, he has won national medals at the juvenile (bronze, 2008), intermediate (silver, 2009), and junior (bronze, 2013) levels.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span>\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span>&#8220;I am very happy to\u00a0<\/span>join\u00a0Figure Skaters Online\u00a0<span>and really appreciate my\u00a0<\/span><span>new official website,&#8221; he enthusiastically\u00a0declared after\u00a0the launch of\u00a0his new site earlier this week.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span>\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span>Chen, 14, trains at the East West Ice Palace in Artesia, Calif., and represents Salt Lake Figure Skating. \u00a0He is coached by Rafael Arutunian, Nadia Kanaeva, and Vera Arutunian. Kanaeva choreographed his competitive programs this season.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span>\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span>Chen began his international season in September by winning consecutive gold medals at ISU Junior Grand Prix (JGP) events in\u00a0Mexico City, Mexico, and in Minsk, Belarus. He has qualified for his first ISU Junior Grand Prix Final, which will be held in Fukuoka, Japan, December 5-8, 2013. Competing at the JGP Final will give him a bye to the 2014 U.S. Figure Skating Championships in Boston, Mass., where he will attempt to win,\u00a0January 7-9,\u00a0his second junior title\u00a0in three years.<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Figure Skaters Online is pleased to welcome Nathan Chen with the launch of his new official website at\u00a0http:\/\/www.figureskatersonline.com\/nathanchen\/. \u00a0 The 14-year-old Chen is a three-time U.S. national champion at the novice (2010 &amp; 2011) and junior (2012) levels. In addition, he has won national medals at the juvenile (bronze, 2008), intermediate (silver, 2009), and junior&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[140],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-athlete-website"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/figureskatersonline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/figureskatersonline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/figureskatersonline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/figureskatersonline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/figureskatersonline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5976"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/figureskatersonline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6017,"href":"https:\/\/figureskatersonline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5976\/revisions\/6017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/figureskatersonline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/figureskatersonline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/figureskatersonline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}