“I am disappointed to have to withdraw from Worlds,” Chen said in the USFS release. “I have been training for this competition since returning from Beijing. I have a nagging injury that I’ve been dealing with, and I don’t want to risk further injury by practicing and competing next week.”Worlds would have been Chen’s final competition before the 22-year-old returns to Yale University later this year and plans to take a break from competition.
Camden Pulkinen, 21, will take Chen’s place at the March 21-27 event in Montpellier, France, marking his worlds debut. Pulkinen was the second alternate behind two-time Olympian Jason Brown. A 2016 Youth Olympian, Pulkinen placed 12th at this season’s Four Continents Championships. He was fifth at January’s U.S. Championships.
Seventeen-year-old worlds debutant Ilia Malinin and two-time Olympian Vincent Zhou, who missed the men’s singles event in Beijing due to Covid-19, are also representing the U.S. in France.
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