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Yu-Na Kim: Olympic Thread

verysmuchso

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Thank you for sending the link to that photo! It brings back so many memories. I don't think Mao or Yuna have changed too much over the years though. Still the same expressions. :laugh:
Mao looks as though she's saying to Yuna "They say we get to go to Friendly's after the practice! "
 

ahy

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Mao looks as though she's saying to Yuna "They say we get to go to Friendly's after the practice! "
From kanamaster's twitter :
Mao said, she told to @Yunaaaa "Congrats! Let's have a pic taken together!". Yuna said to Mao "Otsukaresama(Good job)" in Japanese:))
I really want to have a look at the photo. Yuna said that she was really moved my mao's performance in the lp :)
 

RABID

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Mar 17, 2013
Time for reflection

Whatever else, Kim YuNa has to be considered the greatest competitor figure skating has ever seen.
Good for USFSA for their decision to send Polina to the Olympics.
Mao redeemed herself and made herself a legend
 

verysmuchso

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From kanamaster's twitter :
Mao said, she told to @Yunaaaa "Congrats! Let's have a pic taken together!". Yuna said to Mao "Otsukaresama(Good job)" in Japanese:))
I really want to have a look at the photo. Yuna said that she was really moved my mao's performance in the lp :)

Wow! I guess, in her spare time, she learned some Japanese! Way to go Queen! She even compliments her subjects in their respective languages:laugh:
 

vegarin

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Just what this world need. Another Kim Yuna thread.

Yes, that's exactly what the world needs. :biggrin:

I seriously don't know what your issue is with this thread, since Carolina and Adelina all their own respective Olympic Thread, but if you don't enjoy it, perhaps the common sense would suggests you should just stay away? Perhaps? Maybe?
 

vegarin

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Wow! I guess, in her spare time, she learned some Japanese!

I think back in the day, when they were still juniors and the geopolitics hasn't reared its ugly head, the two were pretty tight. I even remember seeing terribly young Mao and Yuna on Japanese TV shows. I could see Yuna picking up a few Japanese here and there.
 

kslr0816

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I think back in the day, when they were still juniors and the geopolitics hasn't reared its ugly head, the two were pretty tight. I even remember seeing terribly young Mao and Yuna on Japanese TV shows. I could see Yuna picking up a few Japanese here and there.

It's common for Koreans to learn Japanese or Chinese as a secondary language, I believe.
 

Isabel_O'Reilly

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Is Kim Yuna the only skater in history to podium at every single major event she's attended?

Yuna's not the only skater, there were other's such as G&G and half-a-dozen others, but she is the only one under COP as far as I know.

Yulia was keeping up with her; never finishing lower than Gold or Silver medals, except for a Bronze medal at TEB last year when she was injured, but she lost her podium streak at the Olympics. Darn. Now I have to add a qualifier to the statement that she's always podiumed.

Congratulations to Yuna on winning two Olympic Golds.
 

usethis2

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She is the most complete package of a skater if I've ever seen one. She lives and breathes ice, it seems. I have not seen such command and presence even from men's skating.
 

OS

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Is Kim Yuna the only skater in history to podium at every single major event she's attended?

Yes.

She she also manage to have won at least a short program or a free skate in every competition she has ever entered. So no matter how badly she did in one of the two skates, she always managed to came 1st in the other (lots of small medals). It is an incredible record she kept till the very end, to win the SP by a tiny margin at Sochi - despite the hostile environment, skating early and biased judging.
 
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I believe that Kim's record is that she has never, ever, ever missed a podium, not even as a child, from the first time she stepped onto the ice.

This is a record she shares with Dick Button. Dick Button started skating at age twelve and in his first competition he got second in the novice division in the Eastern States Championship. Two years ater he also competed in junior pairs in the same event, and won. :)
 

cooper

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yuna photos from her Olympic experience

yuna w/Jenna McCorkell

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BhTugllIIAAdiMu.jpg

yuna w/ dennis ten

http://vesti.kz/userdata/gallery/gallery_1144/photo_31453.jpg

yuna w/ team korea

http://oi58.tinypic.com/ivh9nr.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/mtBhONA.jpg

yuna @ closing ceremony during south korea's national anthem for pyeongchang 2018

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BhOIY5oCEAAGeh1.jpg
http://sccdn.chosun.com/news/html/2014/02/24/2014022401002447700166741.jpg

yuna w/ v&t

http://img.etoday.co.kr/pto_db/2014/02/600/20140224064844_413035_1000_696.jpg

yuna and her teammates with charlie and meryl

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BhGtd3fIEAEyc0A.jpg

yuna w/ gwendal peizerat

http://s21.postimg.org/ddo3jox6f/capture1.jpg

yuna w/ kurt browning

http://i.imgur.com/MpMy0Yq.jpg


yuna hugging adelina and carolina backstage.. so much class!! please don't read the comments below.. they are just trolls.. that is all.. :clap:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=fevYHL2otaY
 

Krislite

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Here's a GIF of her magnificent 3/3 in the free skate--her very last triple-triple: LINK :clap:

Definitely a signature element she'll be remembered by.
 

jehan215

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I believe that Kim's record is that she has never, ever, ever missed a podium, not even as a child, from the first time she stepped onto the ice.

This is a record she shares with Dick Button. Dick Button started skating at age twelve and in his first competition he got second in the novice division in the Eastern States Championship. Two years ater he also competed in junior pairs in the same event, and won. :)

Oh. So she's the first woman to do so? wow :agree:
 
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