DOROTHY HAMILL AND PEGGY FLEMING PREVIEWED TONIGHT’S LADIES’ SHORT PROGRAM
FLEMING ON SOUTH KOREA’S KIM YU-NA: “She’s beautiful. She has the combination of the technical elements and the grace and musicality, and that’s what you want in skating. What Evan Lysacek did in his long program was absolute perfection of that blend.”
“She skates with speed, and that’s what makes it even more exciting. She gets up in the air, she has beautiful body lines. She’s got everything.”
HAMILL ON KIM YU-NA: “She’s fantastic. It’s really her competition to lose. She’s reigning world champion. She’s so powerful and her jumps are so high.”
FLEMING ON CANADA’S JOANNIE ROCHETTE AND THE DEATH OF HER MOTHER ON SATURDAY: “It just takes the wind out of you for sure. I don’t know how she’s really going to get out there and skate with that heavy heart that she has and that loss. Sometimes it’s better to just plow through and keep going and she can collapse later.”
HAMILL ON USA’S RACHEL FLATT: “She’s sweet. If she skates well she has a chance at maybe a medal. She’s seventeen. This is her first year really on the big scene. She’s a terrific hard worker and a great athlete and maybe not as much flair as some of the other women. She’s the future, definitely.”
FLEMING ON USA’S MIRAI NAGASU: “Sometimes the innocence gives you an advantage because you can just go out, be free, be yourself. She’s a beautiful skater. She’s got that combination of the technical side and the artistic. She’s very musical, very much like Kim Yu-Na. Very nice style. I thin she’s going to do very well here. This is setting the stage for our sport and their careers.”
8:00 p.m. – Midnight
Ladies Figure Skating – Gold Medal Final (LIVE)
Men’s Freestyle Skiing – Aerials Gold Medal Final (LIVE)
Nordic Combined – Individual Gold Medal Final: K125 Jumping
10km Cross-Country
12:35 a.m. – 2:00 a.m
Ladies Figure Skating – Gold Medal Final Analysis
Medals Plaza – Award Ceremonies
2:00 a.m. – 5:00 a.m.
Primetime Replay
