Yuna Kim
In recent years, Yuna Kim has had one of the most remarkable skatings runs, winning gold in 2010 and silver in individual competition in 2014. “Queen Yuna,” as it is dubbed, raised her home country, South Korea, to a status previously unknown in the skating world and became one of the most widely recognized South Korean athletes in the world. While she retired in 2018 and did not compete when the Winter Games went to South Korea, that year, she lit the Olympic cauldron. Her many endorsements and television appearances keep her busy.
Yuna Kim
Brian Boitano
Long before Brian Boitano was commemorated in South Parks by Trey Parker and Matt Stone: Bigger, Longer & Uncut, Brian Orser played in the Winter Games in 1988. The two personal skaters won the World Championships, and Boitano came first. Boitano said that South Park changed his life when children who were utterly unaware of figure skating now saw him as a hero. Parker and Stone were delighted with him, and Boitano benefited from this. In addition to skating, now he’s a motivating speaker and chef who appeared on the TV show What Brian Boitano Would Do?
Brian Boitano