Yuna Kim biography

This is the post of reader of the gossip, you can start writing on the site and you are dry facts from Wikipedia: Kim Yong, and often there is a spelling of Kim Yu, was born on September 5, Puchhon, the Republic of Korea - a South Korean skater who performed in solitary skating. Olympic champion, silver medalist of the Olympic Games of the year, two-time world champion, champion of four continents, three-time winner of the finals of the Grand Prix,, the world champion among juniors and six-time champion of South Korea-, the first representative of South Korea, who succeeded in figure skating at the international rent, as well as the first The skater who possessed all the highest titles: she won the gold medal of the Olympic Games, the World Cup, the Championship of four continents and the final of the Grand Prix.

The skater beat world records 11 times, 8 of which she herself set. Currently, the most privileged athlete and media figure in South Korea. Quote by Alexander Zhulin about Kim: "Yuna Kim is just a fantastic girl, my favorite skater. Talent from God. Such are born once every thousand years. After the performances of Kim, I just want to quit the coaching work.

She comes out, makes the first cascade and - that’s it! I would like to get up and leave. "Tatyana Tarasova's quote:" Yuna has a great sports talent and experience. She rolls perfectly, jumps perfectly, rotates perfectly. But when I look at this from the side, it does not touch me. I do not empathize, understand? The skater will be able to beat Kim at the Olympic Games, who will take the hall and lead him behind him.

"Excitement from David Wilson’s interviews. I took it from Sports. You are just obliged to work with her! She exceeds any expectations." He also told me that she always looks like he hates her coach, she does not even look at her trainer, when she does not even look at her trainer, when she doesn’t look at her trainer. He drives up in the opposite direction, while he says, and then calmly enters the triple Lutz - completely impregnable, not surprised at anything!

Everything that Jeff told me then: "She is really very talented, but, David, she does not look like a happy skater." In the end, I decided to try. I spent the first three months with her for one only purpose: to force her to smile. Every day I thought about what I need to do and how ridiculous I need to look to make her not just smile, but maybe even laugh. Yuna is a chameleon.

She "modeling" herself in accordance with what I gave her. I must say that among all those beautiful skaters with whom I worked for many years - among all of them - she at the very top in terms of how quickly she studied and how instantly she knew how to reproduce what I showed her. This also applies to musicality. She hears music at a level at which she is very rarely heard. She never rides past music.

Never. This is inside her, God's gift. Being a choreographer, you spend 90 percent of your energy, Taldych “You ride past music, past music, past music! .. They never ride for this damn music! And they don't even understand this! This is the biggest problem in amateur skating. But this girl - she never rides past music. I never had to work on this and develop this quality in it.

Everyone around knew that I was much more than just a choreographer for Yuna. I was part of her everyday training. But we could not even get accreditation for me. Choreographers in figure skating are “necessary evil”, and bringing your choreographer with you is a big problem. This is not easy. Therefore, I rarely appear in competitions - it is not easy to get accreditation.

All this was personally for me, as if I were looking at everything from the outside. It was hard. After the rental of an arbitrary program, I have not seen Kim for about 5 hours - until it went through the entire press and returned to the hotel. This was disappointed. So when I flew home, everything was like in a dream: “Is it really happening? On the one hand, I have never felt more self -confidence in my life: together with Tracy and Brian, we spent this girl from one level to another; She was already good enough then, but the work she did with us was decisive [for her success].

We transformed her, we turned her into a star. Not just in the skater, but to the star. Now she earns 50 million a year, just participating in advertising, but I do not think that she could achieve all this if I had not showed her how to be a soloist at one time. It was 4 years of work-I did not just put the programs to her, but she left and won something with them, no-it was 4 years of path.

But, at the same time, I felt completely unrecognized.I have not received anything from this, no glory - I do not do this, of course, but we are all people. I did not have a single interview [after the Olympics]. All the attention was on Brian Orser - he never won [OI], and his student wins, and this happens in Canada. This was the main plot. And I often at that time was with Brian, and he constantly said: “This is David, her choreographer,” and the whole press passed by, as if it meant nothing.

It didn't worry anyone. Now let's get back to the very beginning of the path of Kim, to her childhood. Parents of the skater invested a lot in the sports future of his daughter, his father even laid a house in the year, when there was a crisis in Korea, and took a large loan so that Yuna could continue to engage in figure skating. Mom was a personal manager and even a coach, subsequently wrote the book "Give the Wings of the Talent of the Child." The relationship with her mother was difficult, her mother was sometimes stricter than any strict mentor and carefully followed her daughter’s training, she could order a hundred circles around the rink, seeing that her daughter was falling down from fatigue.

Quotes of Yuna: My mother, when he is next to me, does not bring me relief. Our relationship was constantly bad. Although when you grow up, you understand it. She loves to command, but this creates stress. I get so many orders ... I do not think that I can be the same as her. I don't want it. Sometimes I ask myself questions at different events: “Why am I here? A year and a half I struggled not to speak at the World Cup, however, I was convinced.

I regretted such a decision, I wanted to give up. They told me that the media, fans and the nation would reject me if I did not speak. I still don't understand this. However, there was an important reason for me to speak in Moscow. But I can’t call her. After I broke up with Brian Orser, people changed their minds about me. I had no contract with him. I still do not understand why this story made such a noise.

This is normal for skaters - to change the coaches. I needed to change my environment after the Olympics. After that, many people began to say bad things about me and my mother. I was disappointed that those who do not know anything about the situation accused us. My body becomes tougher. Before the World Cup, it was difficult for me to make different stretch marks. I got too much knee load, now they are worn out.

I constantly have small pains.

I really love the weekend. Like all people, on the weekend I go to have fun with my friends. I hate Monday. I think it’s very early to talk about it now, but I don’t think that someday I can become like my mother. She incredibly sacrificed many for me. When I was little, I never dreamed of such a major competition.