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<title>Kim Yu-Na - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</title>
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<div class="quote">"But when you watched Kim Yu-na . . .Well, it was like watching Jordan. It was like watching Wayne Gretzky, the puck on his stick, behind the net, occupying his "office." It was like watching Michael Johnson come screaming down the stretch in Atlanta in 1996. You may not know why it's awesome to watch. You just know that it is."</div>
<div class="person">Mike Vaccaro, NY POST</div>
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<div class="quote">"Watching Kim Yu-Na dominate like she did touched me in away that I haven't been touched since Torvill and Dean in Sarajevo."</div>
<div class="person">IOC President, Jacque Rogge</div>
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<div class="quote">"There is technically no such thing as a platinum medal, but if I had one, I'd give it to her."</div>
<div class="person">Whitney Pastorek, EW.com</div>
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<div class="quote">"This girl has everything. She has poise. She has charm. She's perfection, absolute perfection."</div>
<div class="person">Hal Rubenstein, InStyle's fashion director</div>
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<div class="quote">"Long limbs, beautiful face, perfect jumps, good spin... I don't have time to say everything... she is the sport's shining star."</div>
<div class="person">Kurt Browning at 2009 Grand Prix Final</div>
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<div class="quote">"Her place as an all-time great [is] secure alongside the likes of Peggy Fleming, Dorothy Hamill and Katarina Witt."</div>
<div class="person">Christopher Clarey, NY Times</div>
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<div class="quote">"Technically, she’s the greatest of all time. If she skates a little longer and does this over the next three or four years, she will be the greatest skater of all time."</div>
<div class="person">Ted Barton, one of the designers of new points-based scoring system </div>
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<div class="quote">"Yu-na has only been at the top of her game for a couple of years. But if she’s here another four years at this level, a lot of skaters would break down. They would try to up their games so much, there would be injuries. There’s no weakness there. Compare her with anybody; she’s got it all. Under any system, anywhere, anytime, she’d win."</div>
<div class="person">Scott Hamilton, gold medalist and NBC commentator</div>
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<div class="quote">"She is the first woman in history who can even compete in men's figure skating for medal. There is no superlative that can describe this young woman. She was like an artist painting a masterpiece with only the slightest touch of a brush."</div>
<div class="person">German commentators commenting on her Olympics LP</div>
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<div class="quote">"In terms of difficulty, her program would shine even in men's competition. That triple-toe was as good as Lyseck's." </div>
<div class="person">Russian commentators commenting on her Olympics LP</div>
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<div class="quote">"If this was track and field, we just watched an 8-second 100 meters."</div>
<div class="person">Jamie McGrigor, a skating analyst commenting on Yuna's LP performance at the 2010 Vancouver Olympics </div>
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<div class="quote">"How do you make a Kim Yu-Na... you can't. It's truly a gift." </div>
<div class="person">Scott Hamilton, gold medalist and NBC commentator</div>
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<div class="quote">"My heart just started beating a little faster."</div>
<div class="person">Scott Hamilton as Kim Yu-Na took the ice</div>
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<div class="quote">"Oh my goodness, this is glorious. This is one of the greatest Olympic performances I have ever seen."</div>
<div class="person">Sandra Bezic during Yu-Na's performance at Vancouver Olympics</div>
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<div class="quote">"And the crowd mesmerized during her skate, leaping to their feet. The coronation is complete. Long live the Queen."</div>
<div class="person">Tom Hammond, NBC sportscaster</div>
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<div class="quote">"That blasts the old record. That destroyed the old record."</div>
<div class="person">Hammond on Kim Yu-Na's record-setting score of 228.56</div>
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<div class="quote">"Yu-Na Kim. A living, breathing work of art from Korea"</div>
<div class="person">Cam Cole, Vancouver Sun</div>
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<div class="quote">"La petit perle koreanne. La classe, la classe à l'était pur" "The little Korean pearl. The class, the class in its pure form"</div>
<div class="person">French eurosport</div>
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<div class="quote">"I'll never forget the night Korean figure skater Kim Yu-na became an Olympic legend. It's funny because, before the event, I dreaded covering it. I had never written about figure skating and wasn't sure I could describe what happened on a tight deadline. I am to figure skating what Shaquille O'Neal is to the Cleveland Cavaliers -- just an out-of-place misfit. But Kim made it easy for me. She was stunning -- elegant and athletic -- and turned the night (which included the courageous performance of a Canadian skater named Joannie Rochette who was mourning her mother's death) into hers. She looked superhuman during her free skate, and when she was finished with her masterful, gold-medal performance, she reminded us that she was a 19-year-old living the same dream that little girls around the world have. She cried, long and hard. She didn't know why she was crying, but she couldn't stop, either. I'll never forget the night Kim Yu-na became an Olympic legend. And I'll never fear covering figure skating again."</div>
<div class="person">Jerry Brewer, sports columnist/Seattle Times</div>
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<div class="quote">"During the competition Ms. Kim transformed herself into two characters: a James Bond flirt, aiming an invisible gun at the audience in her short program, and a free spirit skating to Gershwin’s Concerto in F with relaxed aplomb in her long program. Moving with a steady swiftness, yet seeming to melt into the music at every opportunity — not easy in an ice rink, where musical notes can sound like rain hitting tin — Ms. Kim abandoned herself to speed and poise to attain a state of grace."</div>
<div class="person">Gia Kourlas, former figure skater</div>
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<div class="quote">"But when you watched Kim Yu-na . . .<p/>Well, it was like watching Jordan. It was like watching Wayne Gretzky, the puck on his stick, behind the net, occupying his "office." It was like watching Michael Johnson come screaming down the stretch in Atlanta in 1996.<p/>You may not know why it's awesome to watch. You just know that it is."</div>
<div class="person">Mike Vaccaro, NY Post</div>
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<div class="quote">"Yuna is like Seabiscuit, a champion who found a way of breaking others' will"</div>
<div class="person">Scott Hamilton</div>
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<div class="quote">"There are good skaters, excellent skaters, and then there's phenoms... she's one of those [phenoms]."</div>
<div class="person">Scott Hamilton</div>
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<div class="quote">"Skating fans want to be swept away by a performance, they don't want to be just counting points and that's exactly what Yuna has done!"</div>
<div class="person">Sandra Bezic</div>
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<div class="quote">"Who is going to challenge her? No one is going to beat her. She is going to have to beat herself."</div>
<div class="person">Scott Hamilton</div>
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<div class="quote">"Math alone cannot fully describe the resourcefulness, complexity and artistry of her skating, except in this context. Kim would have finished ninth in the men’s competition, nearly 10 points ahead of the American national champion, Jeremy Abbott"</div>
<div class="person">Jere Longman, New York Times</div>
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<div class="quote">"Certainly, it has taken women’s skating to another level. Technically. The whole package."</div>
<div class="person">Kristi Yamaguchi</div>
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<div class="quote">"She's the fastest skater I've ever seen."</div>
<div class="person">Michelle Kwan</div>
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<div class="quote">"She’s the whole package. Her jumps are soaring and they’re equal. You don’t have one big one followed by a little tiny jump. I think she’s grown choreographically. She’s very musical. The whole thing is very beautiful and athletic but not too athletic. I don’t feel like I’m missing anything when I watch her."</div>
<div class="person">Dorothy Hamill</div>
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<div class="quote">“I’m very pleased to welcome the minister from the Republic of Korea, especially the day after that magnificent Olympic gold medal-winning performance. And I think, although it was one young woman who did so magnificently, I believe the whole country is celebrating. She was extraordinary.”</div>
<div class="person">Sec. Hilary Clinton</div>
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<div class="quote">"You can watch Kim Yu-na levitate across the ice, a mesmerizing fusion of elegance and athleticism. You can see how every jump is big and straight and effortless. You can see how her legs, her arms, her torso, even her pinkie fingers are always in the right place, flexed at the most delicate and sublime angles."</div>
<div class="person">Mark Zeigler, San Diego UNION-TRIBUNE</div>
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<div class="quote">“It’s taken skating to another level.” </div>
<div class="person">Kristi Yamaguchi</div>
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<div class="quote">"To perform like that, after knowing how her main competitor performed, is phenomenal. What a woman."</div>
<div class="person">Sandra Bezic </div>
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<div style="text-align:center;font-size:1.2em;">Courtesy to www.YuNaForum.com</div>
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