If the pieces and the votes all fall into place, Denis Ten just might compete in the 2018 Winter Games in South Korea, his ancestral home, and in the 2022 Winter Games in Almaty, Kazakhstan, his home city.
But for now Ten’s focus is much more short term: this week’s world figure skating championships in Shanghai.
At age 21, he already has a surprise silver medal from the 2013 world championships and a bronze medal from last year...