Post by Admin on Jun 28, 2020 20:18:53 GMT
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The 16-year-old Young You – dubbed the “next Yuna Kim” – is just like any other girl of her age who likes BTS and Ariana Grande. And just like her favourite movie, Frozen, she’s also an ice queen. Winning second place at the ISU Four Continents Figure Skating Championships in February, Young You became only the second Korean to bring back a medal from this competition.
As the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics is fast approaching, the pressure is on and the question on everyone’s lips is – will she prove as successful as the country’s previous Olympic gold medallist, celebrity skater Yuna Kim? Well – she’s off to a good start …
In 2016, Young won first place in the South Korean Figure Skating Championship as an 11-year-old (yes, 11!), breaking Yuna Kim’s record as the competition’s youngest champion. Young was inspired to become a figure skater after seeing Yuna win at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver – little did she know that she would eventually break one of her role model’s records.
She recalls the moment when her childhood idol awarded her the medal. “My heart stopped. She told me ‘good job’ and it meant so much to me,” she said later.
Young’s skating skills are beyond. She jumped the feared triple axel – regarded as figure skating's oldest and most difficult jump – in the 2019 Grand Prix Skate Canada, becoming only the 11th female skater to land a triple axel in an official tournament. Many fans are keen to see if Young will perform a successful triple axel in the upcoming Olympics – a feat only three skaters, Midori Ito, Mao Asada and Mirai Nagasu, have successfully achieved. Young also ambitiously spoke of her goal to perform quadruple jumps at the Beijing Winter Olympics.
