With "figure queen" Kim Yuna taking on ballet, her back muscles are once again attracting attention.
On the 6th, a new video titled "Google Gemini, Kim Yuna's ballet challenge" was released on Google Korea's official YouTube channel.
This project used Google Gemini to collaborate with experts so they could create better choreography and better performances to the song Kim Yuna used during her competitive years, "Danse Macabre," through AI.
The video brought together "figure queen" Kim Yuna, ballerina Kang Soo-jin, and the Dolphin Wanderers, who produced the APEC summit advertisement, and Kim Yuna took on ballet for this project.
In behind-the-scenes footage, Kim Yuna showed humility, saying, "I skated for nearly 20 years, but it's been 12 years since I retired, so you can consider my body almost that of an ordinary person." She expressed concern, saying, "Figure skating and ballet are clearly different disciplines, so I'm not sure it will be realized as much as people expect."
Kim Yuna added, "A lot of time has passed, but you're doing your best. I hope people think, 'Oh, there was that side of her too,' and remember my active career a lot," and Kang Soo-jin admired Kim Yuna's performance, saying, "Kim Yuna's ability to express music with her body is moving, not just her technique. She would have been really good even if she had been a ballerina."
Netizens' reactions are also heated. In the video's comment section, comments continue such as, "The ice melted and she became a swan," "They say she doesn't exercise at all after retirement, but you can see the traces of effort when you look at her back muscles," "There's no way this is someone who doesn't exercise," and "This is an ordinary person's body? The bar is high."
Previously, Kim Yuna appeared on Kim Yeon-kyung's YouTube channel and explained her body management secret, saying, "I don't exercise. I think I should do it now for my health, but my body doesn't follow well. Because the work I'm continuously doing is very public, I have to manage it, but I minimize exercise and control it by what I eat. I'm not the type to gain weight easily."
Meanwhile, Kim Yuna became the first female figure skater in history to achieve all-podium results, and she won the gold medal in the women's singles figure skating at the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics. She is Korea's first Olympic medalist in figure skating history. Kim Yuna added a silver medal at the 2014 Sochi Olympics before retiring.
After retiring, Kim Yuna married Ko Woo-Rim, a member of Forestella who is five years her junior, in 2022 after three years of dating.
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