All posts tagged "figure skating"

  • You Young (Newsis)
    11-year-old figure skater You Young wins 1st int’l title

    (Yonhap)  11-year-old figure skating phenom You Young captured her first international title on Thursday in Austria. You won the advanced novice girls’ competition at the Cup of Tyrol in Innsbruck with a combined score of 134.75 points...

    • Posted March 10, 2016
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  • Denis Ten, from Kazakhstan, Sochi 2014 Bronze medalist in the men's singles figure skating, speaks at a news conference during the 2022 Winter Olympics Candidate City Briefing for IOC Members at the Olympic Museum, in Lausanne, Switzerland, Tuesday, June 9, 2015. With the vote less than two months away, leaders of the Almaty and Beijing bids made presentations at a "technical briefing" at the Olympic Museum in Lausanne. The meeting was attended by 85 of the International Olympic Committee's 101 members. (Jean-Christophe Bott/Keystone via AP)
    Kazakh-Korean figure skater dreams of Olympics at home

    KUALA LUMPUR, July 29 (Yonhap) — Denis Ten has been the most accomplished figure skater to come out of Kazakhstan, having bagged an Olympic bronze and a world championships silver. Now the 22-year-old is trying to duplicate...

    • Posted July 29, 2015
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  • Park So-yeon. (Yonhap)
    [CNN] Park So-Youn: The teen tipped to be South Korea’s ‘next Kim Yu-Na’

      —  It’s not easy following in the footsteps of a sporting legend — but it helps when they are willing to guide you in the right direction. Park So-Youn has taken over the mantle of...

    • Posted July 15, 2015
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  • Park So-yeon. (Yonhap)
    Park So-youn wins Nationals, Kim Yuna presents awards

    By Kwon Ji-youn Fans saw a glimpse of legend Kim Yuna in Park So-youn when the 17-year-old skated her way to the top of the podium at the Mokdong Ice Rink, Friday. Park ended rival Kim Hae-jin’s...

    • Posted January 9, 2015
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  • Park So-Youn of South Korea competes in the women's short program figure skating competition at the Iceberg Skating Palace during the 2014 Winter Olympics, Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2014, in Sochi, Russia. (AP Photo/Darron Cummings)
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    • Posted January 9, 2015
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  • Kim Yuna has handled the controversy with nothing but class. (Yonhap)
    S. Korea to file judging complaint over skating star

    (Yonhap) — South Korea will file an official complaint with the international governing body for figure skating over the controversial composition of the judging panel for the ladies’ singles competition at this year’s Winter Olympics, officials said...

    • Posted March 21, 2014
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    Kim Yuna meets fans in Seoul on Tuesday

    Kim Yuna, the 2010 Olympic champ in ladies’ singles figure skating who took the silver at the Sochi Winter Games last month, met hundreds of her enthusiastic fans at a Seoul shopping mall on Tuesday. “Going in, I...

    • Posted March 4, 2014
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