No, there’s nothing wrong with the ice at the Olympics figure skating arena

Men’s figure skaters fell left and right Thursday night, so obviously, there are truthers — they’re just not the skaters themselves.

Olympic figure skating began with the men’s short program and pairs short program components of the team event on Thursday evening and there were a lot of falls. Not so much from the pairs, but definitely from the men.

Dear, sweet Nathan Chen fell on one of his quads and generally racked up errors throughout most of his program. Only Japan’s Shoma Uno skated a clean program. Obviously, fans on Twitter took to truthing.

The theory is that there’s something wrong with the ice, generally, and the left (?) corner of the rink specifically. A cross-section of truthers:

However, beloved Good Guy figure skating commentator and gold medal Olympian reports that the skaters themselves don’t quite feel the same way.

Chen, too, placed no blame on the ice.

Sometimes you just have bad days and, one would imagine, serious nerves about skating on the Olympic stage. The United States is still in second place in the team event and hopefully, this means Chen has the jumps and errors out of his system. (In the extended Chen-as-Golden-State-Warriors analogy, this is the Grizzlies series in 2015.) He can leave the truth-ing to the rest of us.

(Figure skating has a long and storied history of being conspiracy-theory-friendly, such as it is that so much — from team selection to judging to media coverage — is utterly at the discretion of faceless organizing bodies.)

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The figure skating team event continues Saturday at 8 p.m. ET with the women’s short program, the ice dance short dance and the pairs free skate.