Kaori Sakamoto (JPN) wins the 2022 World Championships with 155.77 points in the free skate and 236.09 overall. She is the first Japanese woman to win a World title since Mao Asada in 2014.
“Nobleness and beauty, yes… it’s everything about what skating should be about, it’s the use of the edges, the steps and the turns, the balance, the rhythmic knee action, the precision… the skater’s skater, in my view.”
Kaori Sakamoto (JPN) performs her free program to No More Fight Left In Me/Tris, scoring a personal best of 153.29 and winning the gold bronze medal.
“he is from sendai… he’s donated so much of his prize money - all of his olympic prize money - to disaster relief for the sendai earthquake, all of his autobiography royalties have been donated. he’s been an ambassadorial figure throughout”
Karen Chen is a 22-year-old women’s singles figure skater from the United States of America. She has earned every type of medal at the US Championships, winning the Gold in 2017, Silver in 2022, Bronze in 2015, 2018, & 2021, and Pewter in 2020.
Karen has twice placed fourth at the World Championships in 2017 & 2021, both times securing the US women a third spot at the Olympic Games. Karen is one of only six women’s singles skaters to be competing in her second Olympics in 2022. She previously competed at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, where she came in 11th.
Riku Miura & Ryuichi Kihara of Japan perform in the pairs short program of the 2022 Olympic Figure Skating Team Event, earning a personal best 74.45 points.