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my review of #NathanChen memoir One Jump At A Time. fllw me at the peak of excellence on #Goodreads:
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www.goodreads.comRF Brown's review of One Jump at a Time4/5: On Technical Score, gold-medal Olympian Nathan Chen's memoir, One Jump at a Time, is a perfectly executed sports memoir: raw talent practiced to perfection; rise, fall, rise again arc; triumph of mind over métier. Chen the author masters the required elements, just like Chen the Quad King willed himself into being the best jumper in the history of the men's figure skating event––full hockey stop. Perhaps there are other men skaters more artistically rounded, they might even have sexier biographies, but Nathan Chen's late-career programs were feats of physical talent combined with modern com...