Yuna Kim's Free Skate to "Adios Nonino" at Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics 

Yuna doesn’t need a medal. SHE NEEDS A DIAMOND CROWN

She was not crying not to get gold medal. She cried just because it was her last official performance. She is already beyond gold medal.

9 years and still bitter that she didn't win the gold. At least we all know who really deserved it... I get chills watching any performance of hers.

8 years later and I’m still bitter about her not winning gold ……

6 years later and I'm still bitter about her not winning gold....

her silver shines more than gold.

She did not protest of scores because she knows that she is the true champion. Kim Yun A is a champion of 2014 olympics

True Olympic champion. And everyone knows that.

Is there anyone watching in 2020? +) The new year begins with Yuna again!

I don't care about the Russian, nobody remembers her. Yuna Kim is the true legend

THE TRUE 2014 OLYMPIC CHAMPION. Yuna has nerves of steel.

Everyone knows the truth. She's the true gold medalist, the two-time Olympic champion.

It's like I'm watching water. She moves so gracefully I am so shocked she got 2nd place.

Yuna deserves a gold medal. This is absolutely stunning, perfect.

She had both the artistic and technical prowess. A gold standard in figure skating, even 8 years later

here in 2022, still such a legendary performance

This is an olympic program, not because it was skated at the Olympics, but because it achieved something that every skater hopes to achieve: at each moment it felt like an Exhibition skate. It was free, it was sensual, it was poignant, but above all, it was real. She wasn't pretending for the judges, and she wasn't constantly thinking about rotation and transitions and the stuff of junior skaters. She skated like a woman who has nothing to prove, and that is why, she is Queen Yuna.

She deserved gold for this.

Russians.....Even though they gave Yuna a silver, I truly believe in my heart that the best women figure skater in history is Yuna and it's not close. Her step sequence and gestures are what I like about her. Not only she has top techniques but also, her artistry is the best in history. You may argue there are better jumpers than her, but no one has better expression to the music than this woman..including men.

I’m Russian, but I also undoubtedly can say, that she is a true winner, Sotnikova skates like a wooden stick

did you guys know she never even complained once about this event (well, any other event in her life)? she said "i'm not the judge, so i cannot say anything about the result" she is so humble and she even gave sotnikova a hug after the event, even though sotnikova only held out her hands for a handshake.

I am Russian by blood and disgusted with the rigged scoring. There is no doubt Yuna should have won. This event was such a disgrace.

Yuna Kim's performances will forever be the goddess standard in figure skating. No gold medals awarded by crooked judges or won through the use of performance-enhancing drugs by 'successors' of Yuna Kim, will change this fact.

I haven't seen the performance like this. This is amazing, gorgeous, and beautiful. She is real gold medalist. No doubt.

It’s officially 2019 and I’m still not over this

This is the true gold medalist.

It is not just figure skating. It is an art. Yuna Kim is the best ever

How can the ending be so perfectly matching to the music? She’s a legend!

For the benefit of all confused writers on this topic as well as for the general public let me clarify once and for all the facts concerning the scoring and show why Yuna Kim should have won gold. I will only address the scoring for the free program, although the scoring for the short program was also highly dubious and has attracted a lot of criticism. As is common knowledge, the free program score for each skater is the sum of their TES (technical element score) and their PCS (program component score), the two scores carrying roughly equal weight. The TES in turn is the sum of the base difficulty value for each of the twelve technical elements, e.g. a triple Lutz and the corresponding GOE (grade of execution) score. Now, each of the nine judges awards a grade, an integer from -3 to +3 for each technical element reflecting the quality of the execution. For every technical element, each of these values carries a specific numerical value, as determined by the ISU SoV (Scale of Value) chart. The highest and the lowest values are then discarded and the average is taken of the remaining seven values. This average is the GOE score for the element. Yuna Kim's TES comprised of a base difficulty score of 57.49 and a GOE score of 12.20 giving a total TES of 69.69. Adelina Sotnikova's base difficulty score of 61.43 and GOE score of 14.11 gave a total TES of 75.54. Before we start delving into the details of the scoring, we must mention that Kim's base score should have been higher to begin with. More details will be found below. Let's begin with Adelina's triple Lutz- triple toeloop (3L+3T) jump combination which was her first technical element of the program. A review has shown that she made an incorrect entry. It should have been made with a back outside edge, but hers wasn't (skaters call the mistake a "flutz"). This error carries a mandatory -0.7 GOE score but in fact she received a GOE score of +1.00. It turns out that one of the judges even gave her a base GOE score of +3.00 (remember that +3 is the highest GOE grade that can be awarded for each technical element). Furthermore, the second jump in the combination was under-rotated by more than a 1/4 turn. By ISU rules this means that the base value of the element should have been reduced by 30%, in this case by 1.80 points. Next, we recall that Sotnikova messed up the triple flip-double toeloop-double loop combination in the middle of her routine for which she received a 0.90 GOE deduction. ISU rules stipulate that a step-out (in this case a stumble) carries a mandatory unscaled 2 point deduction translating to a 1.40 GOE deduction. So we realise that she received 0.50 points more than she ought to have for the error, notwithstanding the fact that her wildly tilted axis of rotation for the double loop should have incurred an extra GOE penalty. So for the two jump combinations, Sotnikova received at least 4.00 GOE points MORE than she ought to have and this even before we begin the head-to-head comparisons of the technical elements. Be that as it may, we know that she received a GOE score of 14.01 for the remaining ten technical elements of the program. This is 2.81 points more than Yuna's GOE score for ALL of her twelve technical elements COMBINED. Except for the 3L+3T, NONE of the comparable jumps yielded Yuna a higher GOE score. This is very strange, as we recall that she executed them all flawlessly and especially as her jumps were cleaner with better mid air positioning and travelled further as well as being generally around 10cm higher off the ice than the Russian's. In the triple flip Adelina received a GOE of +1.50 whereas Yuna received only +1.20. It is worth noting that in this jump the Russian pre-rotated by nearly 180 degrees whereas the Korean did not pre-rotate at all, a fact which should have resulted in a swing of GOE points in the latter's favour. In the triple Salchow, Adelina received a GOE of +1.20 whereas Yuna received +0.90. Replay shows that Adelina's jump was again rather poor, hardly rising above the ice. For the double axel, Adelina received a GOE of +1.07, whereas Yuna received +0.79, this in spite of the Korean jumping towards the end of the program for which there is a 10% GOE bonus. For the layback spin, Adelina received a GOE of +1.07, with Yuna receiving +0.64. For the change foot combination spin, Adelina received a GOE of +1.21, with Yuna receiving only +0.71. No right thinking person would therefore deny that Yuna's GOE scores in all of the above categories should at the very least match the Russian's, if not exceed by a significant margin. Even if we are extremely generous to Adelina and we match the GOE scores for the comparable elements above, simple arithmetic shows that Yuna's TES should already be increased by at least 1.81points. Furthermore, Yuna received a LOWER GOE for the triple Lutz- triple toeloop combination (+1.60) than in all of her previous international competitions. As was clear to see, it was executed perfectly. It merited a GOE of at least +2.00 as it has done throughout her career. It is also worth noting that in the choreographed sequence for which they both received +1.50, the Russian almost lost her balance towards the end. Let us now consider the step sequence GOE marks for which Adelina received +1.70 (level 4) and Yuna +1.14 (level 3). Now, this is where the rigging truly came into its own and I will explain why later. For each of the non-jump elements, the panel decides the level of difficulty, which is an integer between 1 and 4. Now a higher level earns a higher base difficulty score. However, in the case of the step sequence, a higher level not only earns a higher base score but crucially, also a HIGHER GOE. Let me be more specific- suppose one step sequence is deemed to be a level 3 and another a level 4. An award of +3 GOE grade to both attempts in fact translates to +2.1 GOE points for the latter but only +1.5 GOE for the former and +2 GOE grade translates to +1.4 GOE and +1.0 GOE respectively. It turns out that Yuna was given only a level 3 whereas Adelina a level 4. This was also highly questionable- even a casual observer would have noticed that the Russian was somewhat shaky in her footwork and noticeably less assured than the Korean. Impartial judges would have therefore, at the very minimum, awarded Yuna with the same level and the GOE score as her Russian counterpart for the step sequence. With all of the above points taken into consideration, simple arithmetic shows that Yuna's TES should have been increased by at least 2.97 points. Add to this the further mandatory 4.00 Base Value point deduction Adelina's should have received for the jump errors and we end up with a total swing of 6.97 points. Now, the difference in the final scores between the two skaters was 5.48 points. Hence merely on the basis of a minimal correction to the TES alone, Yuna Kim should have been crowned as Olympic champion. Next, consider the PCS (program component score) which evaluates the artistic merit of the program. Five categories are assessed: skating skills, transition, performance/execution, choreography and interpretation. Each is marked out of 10, averaged and then multiplied by a factor of 1.6. Sotnikova scored an average of 9.30 out of 10 to give a PCS of 74.41, including a mark of 9.50 for choreography. This is compared to Yuna Kim's PCS of 74.50. Again, any impartial observer will agree that Yuna Kim's performance in all of the five categories above was of a far superior quality, especially in the choreography and interpretation sections. That Sotnikova got to within 0.09 of Kim in the PCS is simply ludicrous. Let me finish by addressing the one unresolved question alluded to above, namely how is it possible that Kim's base difficulty TES score for the step sequence was manipulated. The answer lies not with the judges but with the technical controller and his two assistants who ALONE have the authority to set the difficulty level of the spins, the step and the spiral sequences. It turns out that the controller was a Russian, Alexander Lakernik, who was the former vice president of the Russian figure skating federation and that the assistant technical specialist was a former Russian, Olga Baranova, who apparently just so happened to be a former skating coach of Sotnikova. So all this leads to just one inescapable conclusion- that Yuna Kim was robbed of her rightful Olympic gold medal in Sochi. And such has been the subtlety and skill with which the scoring was massaged that many commentators have yet to grasp exactly how the manipulation took place.

SHAME ON THE JUDGES. SHAME ON THE ISU. YUNA DESERVED THE GOLD

just here after watching the Beijing Olympics, but absolutely she's still the best figure skater ever...

a whole decade later, still crystal clear that yuna kim shouldve been gold. she skated with such grace and elegance, landing her jumps clean, and somehow got beaten by an unknown girl who skated like a stick and landed her jump with two feet. ridiculous.

4 years have passed and I still get mad, this is the worst judgement ever

A female American commentator called this "a performance for the ages." Looking back, I'm thankful she didn't call this a gold medal winning routine. Gold medal-winning performances can be surpassed. But being called "performance for the ages" means being put on a level much higher than a gold medal.

At the moment I thought she was robbed, with Sotnikova becoming the gold medalist. But now, everyone knows Yuna is a true winner. Her performances in Vancouver and Sochi was just glorious and I don't even remember what songs Sotnikova used for the program.

Her facial expression… is just perfect.

she is a two-time olympic champion

This is so beautiful, from the beginning to the end (especially the end). Hard to believe she didn't get gold

This performance is age like fine wine , get better and better with time pass. Timeless performance Unbeliveable the level of artistry choreography and musicality !!! She is the music

Everytime Winter Olympics begin, I come back to watch the QUEEN

4:33 "Ah, The Queen." straight up goose bumps

I think the most amazing thing in Yuna's skating is emotion. It's not just about techniques. She has amazing sense of music and dance and knows how to express it. Can't help falling into her performance. If I were the judge, I would give her about 798908547398203948750points for component score

Real champion Queen Yuna.👑 I miss her...

She deserves a diamond medal!

I haven't seen another skater feel the music as much as Yuna kim

How did this amazing performance get silver and not the gold? I watched the other girls and it wasn't half as detailed and graceful as this....

2023 and still tears in my eyes.

Sotnikova winning was the biggest joke of figure skating history. It was ridiculous then and it just gets worse as more time passes. Yuna was skating with an ease she's never brought. Her skating skills weaved in and out of the music beautifully, and her jumps had the size and power you should expect at this level.

Yuna, your silver will shine as gold forever! You were the best by far!

if i see kim yuna in person i would tell her, ''i know you, you won gold on the 2010 & 2014 olympics.''

2014 Sochi Olympic gold medalist Yuna Kim's wonderful performance

Yuna Kim is such a star! She is so emotional when she skates. All her moves are as if she was floating on the ices.Such a wonderful skater

Some young figure skaters (ladies) nowadays should really learn how to jump technically correct like Yuna instead of doing quadruple jumps with bad techniques... Yuna is so pleasing to watch. And her jumps are effortless.

After all this time, I still wondered why she couldn't get the gold. But then I realized she was a diamond. A diamond that doesn't need to be represented by a gold medal. She will forever be the Queen that had graced upon the field of ice.

After watching the performances in Beijing winter olympic, I ended up coming back to this performance. No one can perform so beautifully and with full of elegance like Yuna.

gold-worthy performance, clean techniques, musicality, grace, THE QUEEN. No one can change my mind. I wish in the next olympics another skater worthy like her would win. And I hope skating fans nowadays won't be brainwashed by putting difficulty more rather than an eye-catching performance that is more worthy to watch.

2018 and I still think deserved her second Olympic gold medal.

She deserves a diamond, not a gold. Super awesome.

The last emperor of figure skating. One of the greatest program that skated with the music so insanely well

There's something bout yuna that makes u cry when she skates

실제 저때 메달도 못 받을수 있겠다 싶을 만큼 분위기가 개 험악했다는데 그 모든 압박감을 견뎌내고 올 클린하고, 부정심사에도 웃으면서 우아함을 잃지 않았다...당시에는 화내지 않는 연아가 이해가지 않았는데 지금보니 화내고 제소해도 결과는 달라지지 않았을 것 같아서, 침착하게 웃으면서 자신의 은퇴경기 마무리하는 김연아가 참 대단하다

Shes like water. So so so elegant, flowy, mesmerizing

Never tire of watching this classic athlete…..her style and grace are unmatched…

당시 어렸던 나는 김연아 마지막 올리픽에서 편파판정으로 금메달을 따지 못한거에 분하고 눈물났는데 나이들고 다시 보니까 분한것 보다도 김연아가 무슨 마음으로 경기에 임했을지를 더 생각하게 되는 거 같다. 승부보다 다른 가치가 더 크다는 것. 그녀에게 메달 색은 중요치 않다는 것. 본인의 방식대로 아름답게 마무리한 것. 선수생활 하는 내내 수없이 많은 편파판정과 부상에 누구보다 억울하고 힘들었을텐데 견디고 이겨내서 멋지게 은퇴 할 수 있다니 진정한 스케이터고 스포츠정신이고 어른이 아닐까.. 나뿐만 아니라 많은 사람들이 다시 보러 오고 기억하는게 진정한 가치인 거 같다.

It seems like Yuna is from different planet where figure skating is an art piece. Her performance exists at a different level from other skaters. She is always truly immersed in the music, emotion, and character and looking like nothing matters than achieving her high excellence. She also has whole packages: power, speed, accuracy, elegance, and expressiveness. She deserved more than a gold medal, maybe a platinum one. I am very thankful to witness Yuna’s performance, because I know that this kind of perfection is something happening once in the figure skating. She will be missed whenever I watch other skaters skate but never reach her level, never make me moved to tears. Sotnikova is also a good skater with powerful skills. However, she will be remembered as a questionable medalist while Yuna remembered as a true champion in history.

2 years past, but I still cry while watching this great masterpiece. Yuna Kim is the one and only skater.

When I watch her skate she makes me cry. So much passion,art, joy, class, skill in her skating and it just takes my breath away.

She is still my number one, and real champion in sochi. Gold medal is yuna’s. absolutely

amazing performance absolutely stunning, deserves GOLD... she is trully art, God bless Yuna Kim

Not silver, This is only Gold.

Yuna kim is the true legend. She is the best female figure skater in history. This is the true gold medalist🥇The Queen...

동계, 하계할 것 없이 올림픽만 하면 몇번이고 김연아 선수 경기를 돌려보게 되네요. 정말 역사적으로 길이 남을 선수 입니다.

She is not skating. She married to the music while dancing on the ice

온몸에 전율이 느켜지는 스케이터는 아직까지 김연아 단 한사람뿐이다. 아무리 점수가 높은 경기를 봐도 그어떤 전율도 느끼지 못했다.

This is a masterpiece!! still makes me cry. Long live the Queen Yuna !! 👑👑

I’m russian and I’m still embarrassed that my country stole the olympic gold from the queen herself. And Carolina deserved a silver medal with her stunning performances. Both of them are legends who were robbed💔

Here is in 2088, everyone still says “Yuna deserves it"

“Adios Nonino is a very dynamic and strong piece of music. Yuna’s arrangement of this piece is the one that I have kept since I first started working as a choreographer. The music is full of emotions and yet has cheerfulness within its captivating powers. It is a difficult piece to express because the music suddenly changes from strong and dramatic to subtle and nostalgic. Only Yuna can express it." - David Wison “It was my last competition, and it was a long, hard journey to be there. I was just so happy to finish it.” “More than being remembered as the Vancouver gold medalist or the Sochi silver medalist, I just want people to remember that there was once a skater named Yuna Kim. ”

We need to make it clear this time who is the real winner .

모든 구성이 끊기지 않고 물처럼 흐르는 느낌...점프를 연기 속에 자연스럽게 녹여내는 유일한 선수. 연아는 예술 그 자체야.

She is perfect. She should have taken the gold, cause she was the real winner that time. I'm Russian and I want to apologize to all Koreans for Sotnikova's gold medal.

"the queen" yes, exactly

There's something chilling about listening to the commentators pointing out the aspects of Yuna's skate that made it the clear superior to Sotnikova's, but then realizing as they're looking at the numbers that the judges had inflated Sotnikova's score so high there was no way she wouldn't win. This was the beginning of a dark era in women's figure skating that persists still. The Russians had infiltrated the IOC, opening the door for the blind eye that has been continually turned to incorrect jumping technique, pre-rotating of jumps, and incredible inflation in GOE and PCS for the Russian women.

Yuna Kim for me is the greatest musician for single skaters ever. She is real dancer and actress on the ice who know how to express emotional to match the tone of the music better than anyone.

yuna has the skills has the looks has the emotions has the rythym and beat has the power in her movements has the elegance the whole performance flows so smoothly so many reasons why she should have won

Only one word perfectly describes her: Queen.

Who can skate a tango like this especially for Long Program? No one. Yuna was the winner of the night for sure. Skating skills, Transitions, Interpretation, Choreography, Musicality. My scoring = 10 of 10.

Yuna Kim’s talent is way out of the ordinary. She’s one of the kind. Gorgeous. Just gorgeous 💗

Man they should give her a diamond not a silver

Yuna is the real gold medalist.

이경기 직관했으면 진짜 울었을듯 마지막 경기라 그런지 메달을 초월한 뭔가를 보여줌....

The strongest performer I've ever seen in women skating. Yuna Kim is define of perfect technician and incredible musicality with expressiveness

I will miss her.

She makes a double axel look like it's nothing more than childs play. She is so amazing and you can tell she has taken plenty of ballet classes and dance classes. Everything from her posture, to movements, to hand gestures, it is ALL fluid and in scync. A truly amazing skater.

I'm russian-american and I always root for Russians when they are very talented performers which many of them are. Unfortunately however in this scenario, Yuna Kim definitely deserved the gold medal. I want Russians to win fair and square, not because of politics

the way she interpret the music with her eyes, arms movement - you just can tell that this program was well thought out, another masterpiece

5:45 when even picking up a teddy bear is elegant asf

I don't care how many quads girls can do nowadays, I still think Yuna is the best🥰 This program was perfect.

I'm continuing to watch over and over this gold performance and I can't still get rid of the rage for what happened that time during Sochi Olympics. This free state was absolutely gorgeous, from passion to drama, only Yuna could master a difficult music choice like that. Wow, I feel so strange even eight years after this tragedy. Not just a skater, but a true artist. She will be a legend forever, eternal. Thank you Yuna for such strong emotions and for this journey with you. I miss you so much! There will not be another athlete like you.

I'm Russian and naturally I'm glad every time Russia wins a gold medal...but not like this. Unfair victory still feels hollow and meaningless 8 years later. I'd rather we win by fair means instead of cheating. It only makes us look bad and puts our athletes in a difficult position where they get attacked for what is obviously not their choice. As for Yuna...she will forever remain the Queen of the ice and the winner in our hearts.