Girls (and guys if you are into this sort of thing)...if you did not watch tonights Ladies Free Skate...you missed the most amazing figure skating that I have ever seen...
Kim Yu-Na from Korea put on the most amazing figure skating show EVER...
It's was technically perfect, the choreography was well done, her 'dancing' was very musical and artistic...her jumps looked easy...the whole program looked easy...what's crazy is that evidently she is the biggest superstar in Korea...the most recognizable face...she is on all kinds of advertisements and billboards...the girl pulls in 8 million a year...CRAZY!!! And all this for being a figure skater...so basically, she had to win the gold...it's like the New York Yankee's getting double what they earn now and not winning the World Series...incredible pressure for the young girl...
Her long program earned her 150.06 points...the next closest was 131...absolutely incredible... instead of posting how many points the next skater needed to take over the lead, they started posting how many points the next skater needed to medal in the first place...the score was just unprecedented...
LINK for the video...just BEAUTIFUL!!!
And then there were all the other ladies of the top 6...our young 16 year old American, Mirai Nagasu, got 4th...she will be a force to recon with in 2014...
Just beautiful...I was okay with the judges scores today except for our other American, Rachael Flatt...I think they deducted points on her jumps, but they really were complete revolutions...I will be very interested to see what the score card says once it's posted...(told ya, I follow this sport...)
Yay for ladies figure skating...makes me want to get on the ice...
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