Nayeon KO (KOR) | Junior Women Free Skating | Gdansk 2025

Our next skater represents Korea, Nae Young Ko. And that's her second assignment when we saw Nae Young in Varese. She had a tough short program as she did here. I love this performance when we saw it a few weeks ago in Italy. Personal best is 145.56. I mean that back in 2024. Season's best is just 111. She will skate to Chasing Cars by Snow Patrol. If I lay here, if I just lay here, would you love it? Just forget the words you say. If I lay here, if I just lay here, would you lie with me and just forget the world? Korea's Nae Young Ko and you can see just limping because this year she suffered fractures in her foot. And as I said in the short program, she couldn't start jumping until May and she has to be so cautious and so careful. And you can see now that just shows how resilient this skater is. It looks like she can barely skate now. But she's pushed herself to get through that program. So, so desperately eager to continue in the competitive arena. But I just sincerely hope that she's OK. Last year, she was a bronze medalist twice on the Junior Grand Prix. Great skills. You could see them here, even with the mistakes that happened. But under duress, really with injury. And seeing now what's happening, you know, knowing that she's had those fractures, gives you an understanding of why she can't even walk. But that makes us even more amazed at Nae Young Ko and her desire to go out. So many others would, I'm sure, not put themselves through this. But she so wants to compete. I think something a little bit more happened somewhere in this program. Because look at how beautiful that triple toe was. There was no indication there that there was an injury. The triple loop, a little bit of a step out there. Short program as well. The triple flip. That was nice. Triple lutz. This took a hard break. There could have been a hard fall on the hip. And I think she fell on that. That too. In her first assignment. And then the second double axel fall cemented the impact of this. Yeah, might have agitated something. But I so love the version of chasing cars that she skates to. And I think it suits her so much. So much more so for me than the short program. Oh, is that the hip that they're? The scores, please. Yeah. She's one of the scores. Nae Young uzyskała w programie dowolnym 104 punkty i 800. That's first in the free program. She has a total competition score of 154.19. She takes the lead and now she'll need to address the injury and find out what happened, what she needs to do. Hopefully nothing too sinister.