Nathan Chen weighs unknown variables of next figure skating season

Nathan Chen performing his 2019/20 “Rocketman” long program. He hopes there will be time to develop new programs for next season - if there is a next season. (Getty Images)

Nathan Chen is a statistics and data science major at Yale.

But even his fluency in those subjects can’t help Chen much now in finding answers to questions about his future.

“Too many variables,” Chen said this week via telephone from California.

Not to mention all the complete unknowns in any equation Chen might use to help define his plans.

For the two-time defending figure skating world champion, that starts with the unknown about when he can back on the ice for the first time since the 2020 World Championships were cancelled in mid-March because of the coronavirus pandemic.

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