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World cries and smiles with Joannie Rochette

“The Olympics are the world’s biggest stage,” said Scott Hamilton, choking back tears as he watched Joannie Rochette crying and blowing kisses heavenward.  “But some things just transcend the competition.”   Kim Yu-Na may have owned the podium in women’s figure skating, but Joanie Rochette, skating just days after her mother’s sudden death, owned the...
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Kim Yu-Na owns figure skating “with a touch of flirt.”

“I was surprised that I was crying.  I didn’t know that I was going to cry,” Kim Yu-Na told NBC sports reporter Andrea Joyce immediately after her world record free skate Thursday night in Vancouver.  “I am so happy,” she blinked back more tears.  “It is the first time I have done a clean...
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