BURBANK, Calif. (AP)—Olympic figure skating champion Kim Yu-na is set to train in Los Angeles. Although for how long and under whose tutelage still remains to be seen.
Since splitting from her longtime coach Brian Orser in a public spat last month, Kim had remained coy on her future plans.
Kim eliminated some of the mystery on Tuesday, confirming she would be moving her training base from Canada to Artesia on the outskirts of Los Angeles.
TOKYO (AP)—Two-time world figure skating champion Mao Asada of Japan says her new coach will be Nobuo Sato.
The 19-year-old Asada has been looking for a coach since parting ways with Russian coach Tatiana Tarasova after the world championships in March.
Olympic champion Kim Yu-na has split from her coach, Brian Orser, in a move that has taken many by surprise—Orser included.
Three weeks after Kim’s mother, Park Mi-hee, informed him he was no longer the coach, Orser said on Tuesday he still doesn’t know the reasons behind the decision. He doesn’t even know if the decision was Kim’s.
A statement from Kim’s management company, AT Sports, didn’t explain why the South Korean star left Orser, saying only that relations between the skater and coach had been “uncomfortable” since May. But Kim, who turns 20 on Sept. 5, was not at the Aug. 2 meeting featuring her mother, Orser and fellow coach Tracy Wilson, and she continues to train at the Toronto rink where she’s worked with Orser since 2006.
SEOUL, South Korea (AP)—Olympic champion Kim Yu-na has parted ways with coach Brian Orser.
Orser’s management agency IMG said in a statement Tuesday that Kim’s mother Park Mi-hee informed the coach on Aug. 2 that “he would no longer be retained” to coach the 19-year-old skater. IMG said “no reason was given for the sudden and unexpected decision.”
Kim’s management company AT Sports later released a statement saying relations between the skater and coach have been “uncomfortable” since May.
LAKE PLACID, N.Y. (AP)—Olympic champion Janis Kipurs is the new driving coach for the U.S. women’s bobsled team.
Kipurs, who won gold and bronze medals for the Soviet Union at the 1988 Calgary Games and then continued his driving career for Latvia, will be with the Americans through the 2014 Olympics in Sochi, Russia. He’ll assist recently hired head coach Dave Owens in the women’s program.
Kipurs also won medals at the world championships and European championships during his driving career.
VIENNA (AP)—Mathias Berthold was appointed coach of the Austrian men’s ski team Monday after leading the German women to three gold medals at the Vancouver Olympics.
The 44-year-old Berthold replaces Toni Giger and signed a contract until the 2013 world championships in Schladming, Austria.
Berthold had worked with the German federation for the past seven years, starting as a technical trainer before becoming head coach in 2006. The Austrian was previously a slalom specialist who competed on the World Cup circuit in the 1980s and 90s.
BERN, Switzerland (AP)—Switzerland’s ski federation has fired Hugues Ansermoz as head coach of its women’s Alpine team because of poor results in slalom and giant slalom races.
Swiss Ski said Tuesday that Mauro Pini will replace Ansermoz after one season working with the men’s speed team.
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VANCOUVER (Reuters) - After surviving a minute of edge-of-your-seat terror, Canada got the happy ending they desperately craved -- a gold medal ice hockey game against the United States to cap off the Vancouver Olympics.
SportsThe undefeated Americans had earlier roared into the final with a 6-1 destruction of Finland in Friday's opening semi-final.
