2010 Winter Olympics Ladies Figure Skating
Friday, February 26th, 2010 :: 11:59 pm
Since the Olympics are in town, and it’s probably once-in-a-lifetime that it will be so close to me, I had to attend at least one event! I lucked out and bought tickets in time to see the Ladies Figure Skating Free Program on Thursday, and it was amazing! Seeing the top athletes in the world compete for gold, silver, and bronze live, now that’s priceless! Although you get all the commentary and replays and close-up angles, I found that seeing a sporting event live is more about the atmosphere and seeing the overall picture.
At the end of the night, “Queen” Yu-Na Kim of Korea got the gold with a world record score (surprise!), Mao Asada of Japan taking silver, and Joannie Rochette of Canada winning bronze! Here are some photos from the upper level!
Yu-Na Kim skating a flawless program for the win
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Tickets!
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Spectators rolling in
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Looks like other Russian athletes are here to cheer on their teammates
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With Glowing Hearts!
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Quatchi was out with Miga for some photos!
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We’re in!
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Lots of photographers on hand
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Elena Glebova of Estonia
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Anastasia Gimazetdinova of Uzbekistan
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Sarah Hecken of Germany
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Cynthia Phaneuf of Canada
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Kiira Korpi of Finland
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Cheltzie Lee of Australia
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Julia Sebestyen of Hungary
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Min-Jung Kwak of Korea
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Carolina Kostner of Italy
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Laura Lepisto of Finland
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Ksenia Makarova of Russia
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Yu-Na Kim of Korea!!
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Finishing off the program and lots of gifts thrown
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Mao Asada of Japan
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Canadian support!
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Joannie Rochette of Canada!
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Out for bronze victory lap!
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Mao Asada bowing for the Silver
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Yu-Na Kim winning the Gold!
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Proud winners! Congratulations for their great skate!
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Big media attention
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March 5th, 2010 at 8:01 am
WOW amazing pics! so lucky you got to go!!
March 10th, 2010 at 9:28 am
I was lucky enough that the place I was volunteering at had a box office right there for the IOC guests. The manager there could search for tickets that’s not even released on the website, so I was able to get some seats!