South Korean Ice Queen Wins Gold at LinesMaker

South Korean Ice Queen Wins Gold

On Thurs­day night South Korea’s Kim Yu-na won the Olympic gold medal as well as scor­ing a world record of 228.56 points. Her per­for­mance will pos­si­bly be the great­est ever seen in fig­ure skat­ing history.

The 19 year-old Korean is rein­ing world cham­pion and had the weight of her small nation bear­ing down on her. In South Korea she is known sim­ply as Queen Yu-na and her pop­u­lar­ity is so immense she always trav­els with body­guards.  The pres­sure did not affect her flaw­less per­for­mance, hurtling into jumps at full speed but touch­ing down with beau­ti­ful grace and poise. When she moved on the ice her efforts were silent and smooth, no harsh scrapes to be heard just a crisp edge. She cen­tered her spins per­fectly and man­aged the most mind-boggling con­tor­tions with her quadru­ple spins. Even her expres­sions while she per­formed to Gershwin’s “Con­certo in F” were impeccable.

When she fin­ished she bent over and was unable to hold back her tears. The crowd show­ered the ice with soft toys and flow­ers in appre­ci­a­tion of a true ice queen. Japan’s Mao Asada won the sil­ver medal and the bronze went to Cana­dian Joan­nie Rochette, who showed courage brav­ing the ice just 4 days after her mother’s sud­den death. South Korea’s only other gold medal in the Van­cou­ver Olympic Games was also on the ice as the speed skat­ing oval.

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