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Kim on target with Bond programme at Skate America
AFP - Sunday, November 15
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Kim on target with Bond programme at Skate America
LAKE PLACID, New York (AFP) - – South Korea's World Champion Yu-Na Kim hit the bull's eye as a sultry Bond girl Saturday, delivering another record-breaking performance in the short programme at Skate America.
Kim broke her own record for most points garnered for a short programme, earning 76.28 from the judges and a standing ovation from the crowd for her programme to a medley of James Bond music.
"I'm trying to do a clean programme every time," said Kim, who capped her routine with a teasing pistol-pointing gesture reminiscent of the celluloid spy.
She was 17.48 points ahead of second-placed Rachael Flatt of the United States.
"It's not about the score. I don't want to think about the score," said Kim, whose appearance on the ice was greeted by South Korean flags and banners proclaiming her "Queen Kim".
"She wants to go out and skate well, show everybody what you are," said coach Brian Orser, a two-time Olympic silver medalist. "I think she's just excited about these new programmes.
"They are such a good fit for her. She wears them well."
Flatt's programme was marred by a fall, but she rallied to stay ahead of Hungary's Sebestyen heading into Sunday's free skate.
Men's competition was to conclude later Saturday, with world champion Evan Lysacek of the United States taking the lead into the free skate.
Flatt was asked if Kim's mere presence had becoming intimidating. The American said she enjoyed the atmosphere that surrounded the South Korean.
"She's pretty incredible," Flatt said. "For me, she's incredibly inspiring and someone I look up to. I'm just inspired when we get on the ice and I think: 'Cool, Yu-na is out here.'"
Kim appears head and shoulders above the competition as the season rolls toward the Vancouver Olympics.
Two unexpected skaters have thrust themselves into the Olympic conversation this season, Chinese husband and wife pairs team Shen Xue and Zhao Hongbo.
The couple added their first Skate America title to their victory at Cup of China two weeks ago - a superb start to a comeback from two years away from the sport.
Ukraine's Tatiana Volosozahar and Stanislav Morozov were a distant second.
The pairs free skate competition was marred by a scary fall by Canadian Meagan Duhamel, which forced her and Craig Buntin to withdraw.
Duhamel fell hard to the ice and reinjured her right leg. She landed first on her shoulder, but although she banged her head Duhamel said it was her leg, in which she has battled stress fractures, that was hurt and not her head.
"It's an old injury," Buntin said, "and on the throw loop her foot stuck in the ice. She said she couldn't feel her leg at first.
"After the camel spin, she almost stopped, as well. But she said her head is OK.
"I've known Meagan for years and we all know she has a very thick head," he joked.
The free skate of Shen and Zhao didn't match the brilliance of their short programme on Friday, and both cited lack of sleep.
"Three hours," Zhao said.
"Today, the free program was very hard for us," Shen added.
Although they left competition for two years, Shen said they may have actually benefitted from the exhibition work they did instead.
"When we didn't compete, the last two years, we skated in Stars on Ice and that really helped us with our presentation mark," she said.
Earlier Saturday, 2006 Olympic silver medalists Tanith Belbin and Ben Agosto extended their lead in ice dance in the original dance.
The Americans, who had already led after Friday's compulsory dance, take nearly a 14-point lead over Russians Jana Khokhlova and Sergei Novitski into Sunday's free dance.
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