Olympic champion for the first time: the American Nathan Chen
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Migration is also changing winter sports, as demonstrated by Olympic champions Nathan Chen, Eileen Gu and Chloe Kim. This is good news, which Germans should also take note of carefully.
Chloe Kim, Olympic halfpipe champion. Nathan Chen, Olympic champion in figure skating. Eileen Gu, Olympic Champion Big Air. Three Asian Americans, children of Asian immigrants who grew up in the United States, marked the first week of the Beijing Winter Olympics. Gu and Kim were born and raised in California, Chen is from Utah but due to his great talent he went to California at the age of ten to train.
Under sometimes difficult conditions: His parents, who emigrated from China in 1988, hardly had any money. Eileen Gu, whose mother grew up in Beijing like Chen’s, and Chloe Kim, whose parents came to America from Korea, were better off financially. But they all carry the urge that made their parents – like millions of other migrants around the world – move into a new life: the urge for social advancement, a better life, the willingness to take risks.
