South Korea’s Kim Yuna shrugged off the weight of expectation from her homeland to win figure skating gold on Thursday but Canada’s Joannie Rochette won most hearts by overcoming heavy personal grief to claim a bronze medal. An extraordinary day of raw human emotion and unrelenting drama at the Vancouver Winter Olympics also saw Norwegian [...]

South Korea’s Kim Yu-na has won the women’s figure skating gold medal at the Vancouver Olympics – and did it by setting a record. Kim shattered her own world mark by scoring 228.56 points, more than 18 higher than her previous record. She is the winner of South Korea’s first Olympic medal in the sport. [...]

Here what the Los Angeles Times writes about this super-star: Kim Yuna of South Korea leads after the short program of the women’s figure skating event on Tuesday at the Vancouver Olympics. Yuna, who skated to a James Bond medley, scored 78.50 points. Mao Asada of Japan is in second place with 73.78 points after [...]

The worst thing for future U.S. prospects in ladies figure skating was not that Japan’s Shizuka Arakawa won the gold medal at the 2006 Winter Olympics and spawned a generation of spinning, spiraling, jumping Japanese skaters. The worst thing is the rise of Kim Yu-na, the reigning world champion who enters Vancouver as the heavy [...]

Montage showing beauty and art of rhythmic gymnastics and figure skating with some of the stars of the both sports.