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Target acquired! A near-perfect performance head and shoulders above the competition earned American Nathan Chen his first Olympic Gold medal in the men’s single skating competition. The favorite headed into Thursday’s event in Beijing, the 22-year-old Chen nailed his win with a long program filled to the gills with moves—quadruple flip, triple toe loop, a total of five quad jumps, including a quadruple lutz, each of which were nailed—that illustrate why he earned the nickname “quad king.” In doing so, he became the first American since Evan Lysacek in 2010 to win gold in a men’s figure skatin…