Kim Yu-na eyeing ‘final stage’ on ice
Published: 14 May. 2013, 20:18
Those seemingly conflicting words of resolution were made when she attended a Seoul workshop arranged for Korean winter sports national team athletes, who are training for the 2014 Winter Olympics to be held in the Black Sea resort in February.
“This is my second time to compete in the Olympics, so I want to enter it without feeling the pressure,” Kim said before the workshop began at the Mount Bukhan National Park not far away from the National Training Center in Taeneung, northern Seoul. “This is my final stage as an athlete, so I want to finish without regret.”
Kim returned to Korea last Saturday after training in Canada, where she reportedly completed the choreography for her new free skate program. Any hints of the details of her program for the 2013-14 season could be revealed during her ice show, “All That Skate 2013,” to be held in the Olympic Park Ice Rink on June 21-23.
Meanwhile, Kim was ranked as the world’s 44th most marketable sportsperson by the magazine SportsPro and Eurosport, a TV network, on Monday. The only Korean athlete in the top 50, she was the fifth Asian on the list, after Indian cricket player Virat Kohli (13th), female Taiwanese golfer Yani Tseng (30th), Philippine boxer Manny Pacquiao (31st), and Japanese football player Shinji Kagawa (38th).
Football stars Neymar of Brazil and Lionel Messi of Argentina were ranked first and second, respectively.
By Moon Gwang-lip [joe@joongang.co.kr]
with the Korea JoongAng Daily
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