At the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, the 17-year-old Russian figure skater Sotnikova won the women's singles event, and this gold medal brought her not only honors, but also seven years of distress. Recently, she revealed in an interview with Russia's Sports Express that because of her victory over South Korea's famous Kim Yeon-er, she is still being "networked" by Korean fans on social networks.
At the Sochi Winter Olympics that year, Sotnikova won the gold medal in the women's singles event with a total score of 224.59, and Kim Yeon-er was second in the event. Sotnikova said that after winning the championship, she often received threats in English and even Russian, "Some Korean fans could not forgive me for defeating their favorite Kim Yeon-na, so they went around swearing on the Internet, they left messages under my posts, or directly sent me private messages." Mostly in English, sometimes in Russian, the kind of Russian that was translated from Google, and that tormented me. Sotnikova believes that the only way to deal with this hatred is to ignore it, "Now that 7 years have passed, some people still haven't given up harassing me with dirty words, but I don't care about it anymore." I sometimes wonder, why should I spend my patience on scoundrels, trolls, or even robots? They should be blocked or deleted, there is no other way. ”
Born in 1990, Kim Yeon-na is the first women's singles Grand Slam winner in the history of Figure Skating in South Korea to combine the Winter Olympics, World Championships, Grand Prix, Grand Prix, Grand Finals, Four Continents and World Youth Championships. In her legendary career, Kim Yeon-er has participated in various competitions and has never fallen off the podium, and is known as the "Queen of Figure Skating". Her outstanding record and goddess-like appearance have given Kim Yeon-er a large number of loyal fans in South Korea. After she lost the gold medal in the women's singles event at the Sochi Winter Olympics, some of her fanatical followers turned their guns on Sotnikova, which has not yet subsided. Just after the Sochi Winter Olympics, Kim Yeon-na also announced her official retirement.
As a Korean "national treasure" athlete, Kim Yeon-er still has super popularity and influence even after retiring. That's why Kim, 30, is still one of the highest-paid sports people in South Korea. According to previous reports by South Korean media, Kim Yeon-er's annual endorsement income alone is as high as 15 billion won (equivalent to about 87 million yuan), and with her ice brand and other over-the-counter income, the annual income can even exceed 100 million yuan. In the figure skating world, Jin Yeon-er's ability to absorb gold is absolutely top-notch.
Recently, Jin Yan'er took a set of latest promotional photos for a brand. As can be seen from the photos, although she has been away from the ice rink for many years, Kim Yeon-er's figure is still quite slim and has not been trapped in the spell of fa fu like other athletes. Perhaps it is precisely because of this that after 7 years of retirement, the enthusiasm of Korean fans for this figure skating goddess has not declined at all.