Kim wins women's figure skating Olympic gold
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South Korean Kim Yu-Na won the women's figure skating gold medal at the Vancouver Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver Thursday evening. |
Teenage diva Kim Yu-Na set an unprecedable bar for successors?in Vancouver?on Thursday, winning South Korea's first figure skating gold medal with record scores at the Vancouver Winter Games.
Skating flawlessly and infectiously to George Gershwin's Piano Concerto in F, the 19-year-old prodigy earned 150.06 points for free skating, breaking the previous world record of her own for more than 16 points.
The long program score, adding to her sublime short program on Tuesday, gave Kim a combined score of 228.56, a full 18.53 points more than her previous world best.
Trailing by 4.72 points after short program, the Japanese sensation Mao Asada, also 19 years old, sustained the second place on podium with 28 points down from the leader.
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