Yu-Na Kim

Philip Hersh: 24th annual awards to international sports figures

2010-12-24 16:32:55

<![CDATA[Philip Hersh: 24th annual awards to international sports figures]]>

Film shows why South Korea's Kim is more than just an Olympic skating champion

2010-03-25 16:35:23

<![CDATA[Film shows why South Korea's Kim is more than just an Olympic skating champion]]>

The pull of the sequined vortex

2009-03-22 00:00:00

There are certain inevitabilities to any figure skating competition. Plastic-wrapped flowers and stuffed animals will be thrown onto the ice. The audience will gasp at a botched triple Lutz, then break into mild applause for encouragement's sake. A gangly...

Kim reigns at worlds

2013-03-16 21:42:00

LONDON, Ontario — They should have divided the women's field at the World Championships into two flights, like a golf tournament. One for Yuna Kim, and one for everyone else because the South Korean figure skater was a world ahead of her rivals...

Smell of reputation judging lingers over skate worlds

2013-03-17 15:26:00

LONDON, Ontario. -- After covering figure skating for 33 years, you learn to accept the partly subjective nature of judging in the sport. That does not make the “reputation judging” that falsified the men’s and pairs results at the...

Fernandez bona fide force

2013-03-01 00:00:00

When Javier Fernandez finished his free skate at the European Championships last month, having landed three clean quadruple jumps, a Spanish TV commentator spent the next minute uttering a stream of "bravos." "I am speechless," the commentator said amid...

Kim, an American's idol, wins short at world skating

2013-03-14 14:59:00

LONDON, Ont. – Gracie Gold is plainly reverential toward Yuna Kim, whom the 17-year-old Gold came to idolize in the two years leading up to Kim’s victory at the 2010 Olympics. It makes no difference she now is Kim’s competitor.� This...

Yuna Kim feels skating perfection is possible again

2013-03-12 21:23:00

LONDON, Ont.� – Her clothes were dark, mostly black, for both practices Tuesday, and the hue fit the expressionless mask that covered Yuna Kim’s face. The convulsive, gloomy and interpretively challenging music for her short program, from...

Yuna Kim wins short program at Figure Skating World Championships

2013-03-15 00:00:00

LONDON, Canada — Gracie Gold is plainly reverential toward Yuna Kim, whom the 17-year-old Gold came to idolize in the two years leading up to Kim's victory at the 2010 Olympics. It makes no difference that she now is Kim's competitor. This was...

Silver anniversary of a golden moment

2013-02-19 15:45:00

It was Feb. 20, 1988, a Saturday night in Calgary, where the first week of the Winter Olympics was ending.� And the figure skating event called “The Battle of the Brians,” had reached its final round. The champion would be whichever Brian...

Gold 5th in short at Four Continents skate

2013-02-09 15:33:00

Mistakes on two jump landings left Gracie Gold fifth after Saturday's short program at the Four Continents Championship in Osaka, Japan. But the Elk Grove Village-based skater still is within reach of everyone but runaway leader Mao Asada of Japan, whose...

Gold's free skate has crowd longing for more

2013-01-27 14:59:00

OMAHA, Neb. — And the winner was … Gracie Gold. That has nothing to do with whether one thinks the outcome of the women's event at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships should have been different. The results, with defending champion Ashley...

Korean Kim Yuna and her coach react to her score after the free skating competition, which gave her the gold medal.

2010-02-25 00:00:00