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Kiira presents figure skating in Yle olympic television

The Finnish broadcasting company is presenting different winter Olympic sports in their television coverage of Vancouver 2010 with the help of Finnish Olympic athletes and a young television host. Figure skating was featured last week, and the athlete presenting it was Kiira. The video has been recorded before Olympics in Hakametsä ice hall in Tampere [...]

Sports gala 2010

The annual Finnish sports gala was held yesterday at the Hartwall Areena in Helsinki. This year Kiira wasn’t nominated for any awards but she did announce one award winner. Laura Lepistö instead was nominated for the most rousing sports event of last year, but she didn’t win – instead the award went to cross country [...]

Holiday greetings

Happy holidays to all our readers! Today MTV3 aired a short interview after the sports news about Kiira’s christmas plans.

Nationals 2010: Silver!

Kiira was first today at the free skating with a score of 106,35. Laura did also a good free skate with almost the same score of 106,24 and because of yesterday Kiira finished second.

Final results:

FPl.
Name
Nation
Points
SP
FS

1
Laura LEPISTÖ
ESJT
167.79
1
2

2
Kiira KORPI
TAPPA
159.28
2
1

3
Susanna PÖYKIÖ
OLK
147.85
3
3

4
Alisa MIKONSAARI
LL
133.70
4
4

5
Minna PARVIAINEN
ETK
121.27
5
5

6
Henriikka HIETANIEMI
HL
114.54
6
6

Free skating results:

Pl.
Name
Nation
TSS
=
TES
+

PCS
+
SS
TR
PE
CH
IN
Deduction
-
StN.

1
Kiira KORPI
TAPPA
106.35
47.60

58.75
7.61
6.71
7.46
7.57
7.36
0.00
#6

2
Laura LEPISTÖ
ESJT
106.24
44.99

61.25
7.82
7.21
7.68
8.00
7.57
0.00
#5

3
Susanna PÖYKIÖ
OLK
99.00
44.08

54.92
7.18
6.29
7.04
7.00
6.82
0.00
#4

4
Alisa MIKONSAARI
LL
86.48
44.82

41.66
5.50
4.79
5.46
5.29
5.00
0.00
#3

5
Minna PARVIAINEN
ETK
77.55
35.95

41.60
5.50
4.75
5.29
5.25
5.21
0.00
#2

6
Henriikka HIETANIEMI
HL
74.60
33.41

41.19
5.32
5.00
5.04
5.32
5.07
0.00
#1

Judges Score (pdf)

Short Program
Free Skating

Media [...]

Nationals 2010: Short Program

Kiira skated her Short Program after Laura and Susanna, and got 52.93 points which leaves her at second place at this point. Laura got 61.55 points and is leading now, and Susanna is third with 48.85 points. Kiira fell one jump and had couple of deductions.

FPl.
Name
Nation
Points
SP
FS

1
Laura LEPISTÖ
ESJT
61.55
1

2
Kiira KORPI
TAPPA
52.93
2

3
Susanna PÖYKIÖ
OLK
48.85
3

4
Alisa MIKONSAARI
LL
47.22
4

5
Minna PARVIAINEN
ETK
43.72
5

6
Henriikka HIETANIEMI
HL
39.94
6

Interview after the SP [...]

Finnish Nationals tomorrow

Anna, one of our regulars, reported yesterday that the Finnish Figure Skating Association will show the nationals in internet LIVE in this address:

Live video feed: https://stll-fi.directo.fi/media/taitoluistelutv/

Time schedule: (check clock at upper left corner [...]

Kiira voted as best athlete from Tampere

Kiira was voted as the best athlete from Tampere today by the association of sport reporters of Tampere. This was the 50th time this poll was conducted. Long jumper Tommi Evilä got the second most votes and gymnast Annika Orvikko the thirst most. Kiira was awarded a challenge cup designed by Kalle Kaihari.

Campaigning for swine flu vaccination

Kiira is appearing in a video to support swine flu vaccinations made for the Finnish national institute for health and welfare.