Plenty of young athletes will be debuting at the Winter Games. Will any of these young Olympians medal or break records in 2022?
is a three-time World Champion, having won in 2018, 2019 and 2021, a five-time U.S. National Champion and an Olympic bronze medalist for the figure skating team event in 2018. He set a short program record in the U.S. Figure Skating Championships on Jan. 8, 2022.
Chen got on the ice when he was only 3, believe it or not, wearing his sister’s white skates. From that moment forward, Chen was in love. He competed in endless events, his first being in 2003, qualified for U.S. Junior Nationals and won the men’s silver at the 2009 Junior Nationals. By age 10, Chen became the youngest new champion in the history of U.S. Figure Skating, winning the national novice title at the 2011 US Championships.
In 2019, Henricksen made his snowboarding debut at his first World Cup at Mammoth Mountain, which also happens to be his home track since he was 12. Just a year after, Henricksen received the gold in slopestyle at the 2020 Winter Youth Olympic Games in Lausanne, Switzerland. Later he came in second at the Burton U.S. Open in Vail and finished the 2020 season off in 18th place in the Freestyle World Cup and third in the Slopestyle World Cup.
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