Korean figure skater Kim Yuna has won the gold medal of women’s figure skating at the Winter Olympics in Vancouver. Official results here.
Kim scored 150.06 points in the free program on Thursday night (local time) and a new world record total of 228.56 points to earn South Korea its first ever Olympic gold medal in figure skating.
Japan’s Mao Asada and Canada’s Joannie Rochette retained their position from the short program to win the silver and bronze.
The term Grand Slam is not often used in figure skating, but it’s worth mentioning that Kim is the first ever lady to hold the title of 4CC, World Championships, Grand Prix Final and Winter Olympics at the same time.
Time to claim my free beer from the Korean guys lol. Image from Chosun [Kr]
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Finally got to see her performance…she was amazing!!
Well land area Korea is very small but compared to China. 1.4. Billion and Russia 141Mil is very small and beating both those counties not to mention the US and its 308mil and Japan’s 127mil
She was amazing Emilie :)
Mao… in that case Norway is the champ. Less than five million of population but high up on the medal ranking. They have the advantage of longer winter than most countries though lol.
Yeah Norway is always been king of the Frozen Hill, but they cheat they are born from snowmen :-)
I read somewhere she had an ankle injury just 1 month before the olympics and she still did amazing.
oh my heck – she deserves this soooo much. ;-)~