Kim also stays involved with her sport, running the 'All That Skate' annual exhibition alongside her mother.īetween the 2010 World Championships and the start of the 2012-13 season, Kim only competed once, at the 2011 Worlds. You won silver at the 2020 Four Continents, the first medal for a South Korean at an ISU event since Kim's world title seven years prior. She also remains a source of inspiration to new skaters coming through the ranks Lausanne 2020 Youth Olympic Games champion You Young has spoken of looking up to Kim when she first took up the sport. Kim remains widely popular in South Korea, and she remains one of the highest-paid athletes in the country through her sponsorships even in retirement. Yuna Kim's mesmerising skate to 'Imagine' at Sochi 2014 | Music Mondays PyeongChang 2018 roles "It was my last competition, and it was a long, hard journey to be there. "I already became the Olympic champion," she pointed out, adding that in Sochi, "winning was not my only goal.
However, in the interview with NBC Sports, Kim said she did not feel bitterness. The Korean Skating Union's protests were rejected. While that win made her a heavy favourite to defend her Olympic gold in Sochi, controversial scoring resulted in her winning silver behind home skater Adelina Sotnikova. South Korea watched Kim's moves closely her decision to pair up with her childhood coaches in 2012 was commented on, but it led to gold at the World Championships in London, Ontario, the following March – her last major title win. The media whirlwind around the poster-girl-turned-national-hero was unrelenting an acrimonious split between skater and coach later that summer (after Kim had won silver at the Worlds behind Asada) did nothing to keep her out of the headlines. The win also made Kim the first skater in any discipline to win both junior and all four major senior international titles since the introduction of the Junior Grand Prix Final in 1998.ĭespite Kim being based in Canada at the time (she trained under Brian Orser at the Toronto Cricket, Skating and Curling Club), she – and coach Orser – immediately crossed the Pacific for an audience with the then- South Korean president, Lee Myung-bak. Again, it was a record that would not be broken for years until Medvedeva did so in 2017. Her total score – 228.56 points – made her the first female skater to score more than 220 points.
OLYMPICS SEVEN MOMENTS WORTH REVISITING FREE
The South Korean's free skate score of 150.06 was the first time anyone had broken the 150-point barrier in ladies competition that record would stand for six years until Evgenia Medvedeva scored 0.04 points more at the 2016 World Championships. "That was the only time I ever burst into tears after a performance," Kim said. While Asada landed two triple Axels, the Japanese made errors elsewhere in her routine and did not come close to Kim. "I'd been pretending to be fearless, but I think the moment the program was over, the pressure that had built up inside me came bursting out," she explained in the NBC Sports interview. It was an enchanting routine, capped at the end with Kim breaking down with emotion.
Skating to George Gershwin's Concerto in F, she put together four minutes of pure perfection on the ice in the free program. Yuna Kim's short programme - Women's Figure Skating | Vancouver 2010 "Pretending to be fearless"Ī marker had been laid down, but Kim wasn't going to get complacent.
0 kommentar(er)
