2014.01.09 19:03
Yuna Kim, the queen of the rink 09/01/2014 Figure skater Yuna Kim first made her mark on the Olympic Winter Games with her outstanding performances on the ice at Vancouver 2010. After taking a break from competitive action the following year she returned in 2013 to win her second world title, and is now gunning to become the first woman to retain the Olympic figure skating title since Katarina Witt in 1988. When she took to the ice at Vancouver’s Pacific Coliseum on 25 February 2010, Yuna Kim turned on a dazzling gold medal-winning display that captured the imagination of the crowd and impressed the judges, who gave the 19-year-old the highest score ever awarded to a figure skater. In doing so she made an indelible mark on the Republic of Korea’s Olympic history by winning the country’s first ever figure skating title, a feat that made her a national idol. That status is founded on the kind of grace and technical prowess she displayed in executing triple Lutz-triple toe loop combinations and her signature layover spin, dubbed the Yuna Camel, in front of 15,000 spellbound spectators in Vancouver. That performance, one of the most stunning of the 2010 Winter Games, was hailed by the then IOC President Jacques Rogge, and rewarded by the judges with a total of 228.56 points that saw her earn a place in the Guinness Book of Records. Below: Published on Nov 23, 2013Relive the incredible performance from the Republic of Korea's Yuna Kim at the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics. The Youth Olympic Games Ambassador set a new Olympic and World Record of 150.06 points in the free routine on her way to a stunning gold.
She was her country’s first ISU Junior and Senior Grand Prix medal winner and also landed South Korea’s first world championship medals in claiming bronze in 2007 and 2008, and then gold in 2009 in Los Angeles. Following her Olympic triumph in Vancouver she won silver at the Worlds in 2010 and 2011 before deciding to put her career on hold for the best part of two years. Explaining her sabbatical in October 2011, she said: “After the Games last year I had so many commitments on top of all the training I had to do for competitions. I just felt I needed to take a break.” Her next step was to become a goodwill ambassador for PyeongChang’s bid to stage the XXIII Olympic Winter Games in 2018. Her speech to the members of the IOC members in Durban on July 2012 played its part in ensuring that the city was chosen to host the Games in the first round of voting.
A sensational comeback On returning to skating in 2013 she said: “I love figure skating. It’s what I’m good at. That’s why I decided to come back.” Her main objective is to defend her Olympic title in Sochi, and she served notice of her intention to do so when she placed first in the short programme at the 2013 ISU Figure Skating World Championship in London, Ontario (CAN). The next day she reeled off another string of perfectly executed triple-triple combinations in the free programme to secure an emphatic win and her second world title. Speaking after her stunning win, Kim told the enthralled crowd: “The Olympics is the biggest competition for all athletes and an unforgettable event. I wanted to experience all that again.” The star suffered a setback in September 2013, however, when she was sidelined for six weeks with an injury in her right foot. That hurdle is just one of many she has faced in her journey to the top, and she will be confident that come February 2014 she can become the first woman since Katarina Witt in 1984 and 1988 to win back-to-back Olympic figure skating titles. |
2014.01.09 19:10
2014.01.09 23:29
She'll make at the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics
- no doubt.
But,
let's not forget who she is !
- the girl who shed Tears on the podium
- and let's ask ourselves Why (she shed Tears).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgY1TnuYqx8&feature=player_embeded
2014.01.10 03:59
우리 김연아 선수는 이제 소치 올림픽 주체국의 선전에서 표지에 'Yuna Kim,the Queen of the rink'로
나올만큼 실력을 인정받는 금메달 기대주가 되었다고 생각한다.
밴쿠버 올림픽때 short program에서 김연아 선수 바로 전에 일본의 아사다 선수가 triple axel을 성공
시키며실수없이 거의 완벽한 경기를펴고 73.78의 점수를 받았을때 이사람의 마음은 다음에 나설 김연아
선수는 어떻게 저 점수를 이길수 있을까 한편 걱정이 되었는데 78.50라는 경이적인 스코아로 1위에 올랐
음으로 우리의 의문을 깨끗이 지워 주었고 free skating에서 아사다를 거의 20점이나 제치고 세계기록으로
당당히 금메달을 따냈었다.
김연아 선수는 어떤 adversity가 있을때 그것을 짚고 다음 단계로 한 gear올릴수 있는 clutch player라고
생각합니다.마치 꼭 넣어야할 putt을 넣고야 마는 Tiger Woods같이. 이사람의 생각으로는 아사다와 김연아의
차이점이 여기에 있다고 봅니다.
수많은 세계선수권대회를 휩슬고 승승장구하던 Michelle Kwan도 올림픽이 라는 벽에 부딛혀 번번히 은메달로
그쳐 눈물을 흘렸었을 만큼 올림픽에는 큰 변수가 따른다. Triple axel을 3개나 성공시키며 분전했던 아사다 마오
선수를 큰점수 차이로 이겼던 김연아 선수를 생각하면 아사다 마오측으로는 초조하기 이를때 없을것으로 생각된다.
이시람 생각으로는 다음 올림픽의 김연아 선수의 승패는 아사다 마오등의 다른 선수가 아닌 바로 자신과의 싸움
으로 생각하며 큰 이변이 없는한 무난히 성취할것이라 생각하며 또 그렇게 되기를 간절히 기원한다. 규정
Go! Yuna Kim!
2014.01.10 16:19
Let us wish our best for Yuna Kim.
Whatever happens, we shall share her happiness or sadness together
as a destiny of a lifetime unfolds from now on, along the long way
ending at 2014 Sochi Winter Olympic Championship.
It will be an another arduous undertaking for a young girl.
And she is doing it for us.
기쁨이건, 눈물이건, 어떻게 되던지간에 그 노력과 의지에 찬사와 격려를 보냅니다.