Kiira was awarded the student athlete of the year 2009 award last February, as we reported earlier. But since she couldn’t attend the award ceremony earlier, the award was given separately on Wednesday the 12th of May 2010.
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Kiira Korpi threw out the opening pitch for Doosan Bears / photo © NeWSIS
Kiira Korpi, now in South Korea, threw out the opening pitch at Doosan Bears vs SK Wyverns professional baseball game on 20th April.
According to the news, Kiira was interested in the baseball fever in Korea and wanted to see baseball fans [...]
Kiira Korpi of Finland performs during Festa on Ice 2010 at Olympic gymnasium on April 16, 2010 in Seoul, South Korea. (April 15, 2010 – Photo by Chung Sung-Jun/Getty Images AsiaPac)
The first day of Festa on Ice gala was today, and Getty Images released four pictures taken today.
This post will be updated after more [...]
PUMA Complete Running © 2010 Puma
Puma will continue as Kiira’s sponsor, and Kiira will be the cover of Puma’s new “PUMA Complete Running” -collection as stated in a press release by Puma.
In the press release Kiira praises Puma’s gear and says that they have proved to work well during exercise. She also says that the [...]
Kiira Korpi to Ice Show in South Korea Photo: (c)Festa on Ice 2010
After participating to Tappara spring show on Sun. 11th April, Kiira Korpi will be invited to the ice show called “Festa on Ice 2010″ which will be held in Seoul, South Korea. This will be her last public performance for 2009-2010 season.
Skaters [...]
Kiira skated well in the Free Skating and got her all time best score of 108.61 and finished 11th in final standings.
In an interview afterwards, she also said (again) that she is going to continue to at least the next Olympics at Sochi, Russia in 2014.
Kiira in the kiss and cry of Vancouver 2010 [...]
Kiira Korpi / Photo:YLE
The starting order of Free Skating was announced.
Kiira Korpi will skate as the 8th skater.
Ladies free skating starts Feb. 25, 17:00 in Vancouver time.
Go to catch up, Kiira!
Kiira Korpi skates her SP, Vancouver 2010 / photo:AP
Kiira Korpi fell the first element, triple lutz combo and got 52.96 points for her short program.
After 20 skaters, Kiira is now 7th place. Kiira is 17th place after SP.
See here for further results:
Media Coverage:
Aamulehti
Helsingin Sanomat
YLE
PlaceNameCountryPoints
1Yu-Na KimKOR78.5
2Mao AsadaJPN73.78
3Joannie RochetteCAN71.36
4Miki AndoJPN64.76
5Rachael FlattUSA64.64
6Mirai NagasuUSA63.76
7Carolina KostnerITA63.02
8Alena LeonovaRUS64.14
10Laura [...]
I already uploaded these to the Forum, but in order to have the files stored also in this site, here they are again. There is an altogether 6-page article of her in this Finnish women’s/fashion magazine (+ cover). The article is mostly about Kiira’s presence in media, peoples’ perception of her, her image – also [...]
Ladies free skating of Euros 2010 was over.
Kiira Korpi fell and had couple of other mistakes. Got 99.42 points for FS and fell down to fourth in final standings. Only 0.86 points from third.
Kiira will go to Vancouver with her Finnish team mate Laura Lepistö.
Congrats, Kiira and Laura!
Video of Free Skate (HD):
Interview with translation [...]
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