Yuna Kim, a South Korean figure skater women's single skater, has a sports career from 2004 to 2014, the show combines a sense of strength and femininity, which is second to none technical difficulty, rich artistic expression, and domineering gliding speed.
Kim Yeon-na
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For South Korea, Yuna is a great player.
Before Yuna, South Korea was a figure skating desert, and at the beginning of 2000, South Korea's speed skating was strong, but figure skating was almost a sport that no one paid attention to, and even the country did not even have an ice rink for the training of figure skaters. At that time, figure skaters could only train with their ice rinks after the speed skaters' training. Today figure skating is still a niche sport, and when Internet information did not explode so much more than 10 years ago, the situation of figure skating can be imagined.
In such a harsh environment, Yuna broke out, born in 1990, she was exposed to skating at the age of 7, because of her outstanding talent, she was strongly recommended by the coach to practice figure skating professionally, and at the age of 12, she completed 5 kinds of three-week jumps, won the national championships, and became the youngest national team member at the age of 14.
In 2002, he participated in the international competition Triglav Trophy for the first time and won the gold medal.
2004 Junior Grand Prix Finals Runner-up,
The 2006 World Youth Championships was a blockbuster, winning the championship,
In 2007, he changed coaches and broke the world record for the first time in the short program of the World Championships.
At the 2009 World Championships, she completed a high-quality 3-3 jump, becoming the first women's singles player with a total score of more than 200 points.
2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics Champion,
2011-2012 Semi-retired state,
The 2013 World Championships announced the return of the king with a perfect performance,
Runner-up at the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics (gold medalists are controversial),
Officially retired in May 2014.
In his career of more than ten years, Yuna has won 7 national championships, 1 world youth championship champion, 1 national champion, 1st four continents champion, 6th world championships champion, runner-up 2 times, 4 grand prix finals 3 champions, 1 runner-up, 2 winter Olympics 1 champion and 1 runner-up, a total of 11 times before and after breaking the world record, Asia's first women's singles Grand Slam player, all competitions have not been on the podium, is the iconic figure of Asian women's singles skating.
Yuna's success has brought vitality to Korean figure skating, because because of her, more and more people pay attention to figure skating, more and more children have started their careers in figure skating, and Yuna has become a national health idol in South Korea. Because of her outstanding career performance and high popularity, Kim Yeon-na lit the main torch at the opening ceremony of the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea.
Kim Yeon-na - Opening ceremony of the PyeongChang Winter Olympics
"At this year's Vancouver Winter Olympics, I was left in tears twice, the first time when I won the gold medal and the other time when my country's athletes won the silver medal in the wheelchair curling event at the Paralympic Games. I knew then that disability could not be a stumbling block to achieving my dreams. Disability is just inconvenient and must not be a reason for 'impossible'. ”
--Kim Yeon-er
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In addition to the dazzling performance of her sports career, Kim Yeon-na has always been enthusiastic about charity, through the establishment of figure skating scholarships, payment of training fees and training facilities for young athletes, etc., long-term funding of young figure skaters, promotion of Korean figure skating reserves; participated in charity ice performances for many times, and donated all the proceeds; filmed public service advertisements to call for the elimination of prejudice against the disabled; actively participated in various charitable public welfare activities; and made many large donations to natural disaster-stricken areas, hospitals, etc. In 2010, he was awarded the World UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador.
According to incomplete statistics, Kim Yeon-er's cumulative public charitable donations amounted to 2,022 million won (about 11.81 million yuan at today's exchange rate).
Finally, figure skating is still a niche sport today, and the niche represents a high amount of investment and a return that is not positively correlated with it. High training costs in the early stage, more than 10 years of long training period, a few short peak periods, typical "youth meal", it is difficult to have the opportunity to become a big instrument late, this way every athlete who can walk on the international stage is difficult, they have experienced various injuries to go to the world's ice rink, this road in addition to love Nothing can make them insist, partial competitive sports are so cruel, only three can stand on the podium, for most of the audience, in addition to the domestic players, Other players can only remember the top few, and others will soon be surpassed, forgotten, and frozen in time, in a circle that few people pay attention to.
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