On February 26 2010 14:03 Warrior Madness wrote: Wow. BRIAN ORSEN is her coach AND she's currently residing in Toronto?! I didn't know that. Makes Yuna's win even better
lol do you even know who brian orser is? i mean you spelled his name wrong =P
On February 26 2010 14:03 Warrior Madness wrote: Wow. BRIAN ORSEN is her coach AND she's currently residing in Toronto?! I didn't know that. Makes Yuna's win even better
lol do you even know who brian orser is? i mean you spelled his name wrong =P
not just koreans are excited about her win... hes so excited he cant spell right
wow, im still shocked by how frigging good yuna was.... she crushed everything there is or has ever been in ladies figure skating. and i didnt even realize how much pressure was lying on her shoulders.
and what amazes me the most is that she still is only 19, so her only "maybe sort of weakspot", the charisma, will grow even more by the years. not to speak of the ease and certainty with which she performes her jumps, i guess she will show triple axels and quads in the future aswell...
228.... thats like flash reaching 2450 elo.....unbelievable. even though i was rooting for the european girls, she really made a fan tonight.
On February 26 2010 14:55 leejas wrote: 20pts > the 2nd place @_@
and the japanese girl was at 205 points, which is higher than what the world record had been only 1.5 years ago. with this performance, 1.5 years earlier, the japanese girl (damn, whats her name again XD") would have set a new world record, and now she gets owned by over 20 points... sooo sick.
Yuna practically lives 10 minutes away from where I live, knew this like a year ago but never really bothered lol, gotta live my own life too
She was magnificent tonight! I also thought Asada was ridiculously good as well, if it weren't for those itty bitty mistakes! Was cheering for both tonight, Kim and Asada - Glad my country won the gold but at the same time I really think Asada was just a hair short
On February 26 2010 14:55 leejas wrote: 20pts > the 2nd place @_@
and the japanese girl was at 205 points, which is higher than what the world record had been only 1.5 years ago. with this performance, 1.5 years earlier, the japanese girl (damn, whats her name again XD") would have set a new world record, and now she gets owned by over 20 points... sooo sick.
It's because the ISU replaced the old 6.0 system back in 2004, so the records aren't really mature yet.
On February 26 2010 14:55 leejas wrote: 20pts > the 2nd place @_@
and the japanese girl was at 205 points, which is higher than what the world record had been only 1.5 years ago. with this performance, 1.5 years earlier, the japanese girl (damn, whats her name again XD") would have set a new world record, and now she gets owned by over 20 points... sooo sick.
It's because the ISU replaced the old 6.0 system back in 2004, so the records aren't really mature yet.
still it shows how much yuna has developed during the last 2 years. what the skaters show on the ice hasnt changed in 2004, its emerging relatively slowly over the years. 2 years ago asada was holding the world record at 199, under the same system that today gave yuna a score of 228.
On February 26 2010 15:49 nosliw wrote: If the interview was short, would anyone want to quickly recap what she said?
From what I remember, they asked her what she thought of her making the sport even more popular in her home country, and she said that she was happy to have done it? I'm apparently really bad at short-term memory tonight, so someone else will probably correct me :p
She was definitely the Queen tonight. Despite the tremendous pressure on her (I know how much Korean media likes to hype a top athlete, and how badly the media trashes that same athlete if he/she fails to live up to expectations - most of the time, of course, 1st place or gold), she handled herself extremely well in both her short and free programs, what a performance, I'm only a mild fan of figure skating (hockey is my favourite winter olympics sport) but I'm the biggest fan of Yuna and tonight was a great night to be a Yuna fan.
Kudos to other women's performers too though, I thought the last 5 skaters of tonight's program all did a very good job.