You-Tube link to TV interviews with Yu-Na Kim and claims a few competitors are deliberately in her way at practice…
Aaron’s blog, “Axel, Loops, and Spins” has a post worth checking out at: http://loopaxles.blogspot.com/2009/03/worlds.html
There, he has an embedded YouTube video of a TV interview (with English subtitles), where Ya-Na Kim is claiming that competitors are deliberately interrupting her warm-ups and practices, and there’s video to go along with it.
There are also others out there at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts0SAc03I7o
same video but different translation
and
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6bk9ig_ss0
(rather over the top/dramatic)
Without a doubt such actions can be dangerous, this really isn’t all that uncommon.
At least, if so, then when in the past decade did our elite skaters become so courteous to one another?
Close-calls are not uncommon anyway in practices and warm-ups, especially with the speeds and nerves of these competitors.
But if it’s deliberate, that’s a whole nother story…
Kids, don’t start this at ‘home.’
Correction: Yuna didn’t make any accusations or blame any of her competitors. It was the TV station which made the story. There are follow up interviews with Yuna where she firmly says she didn’t say anything of the kind and does not blame any other skater.
Thanks for posting you-tube link.
I think the truth must spread all over the world.
As long as there are prudent fans like you, right will prevail in the end.
While I was at worlds I was watching those warm-ups like a hawk and I observed both Miki Ando and Mao Asada meticulously steering clear of Yu-Na…it was the most unusual thing you ever saw. Guess they didn’t want there to even be a hint of unusal warm-up activity.