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October 23, 2009

What Kim Yu-na eats, according to her FORMER coach (?!)

Filed under: (lack of) journalistic integrity — extrakorea @ 11:46 am

Korean journalism never fails to surprise me by its utter lack of professionalism. I thought I had seen it all, but no.
The Chosun Ilbo has a piece in which they describe what world figure skating champion eats everyday, according to her former coach and former doctor.
Kim Yu-na has been living and training in Canada, under Canadian coaches, for the last two or three years. How they hell do they know what she eats?!

3 Comments »

  1. I don’t buy it. She eats 1,200 calories a day? Probably, as a sedentary, middle-aged, overweight man, I should restrict myself to that kind of intake, but I suspect Miss Kim would be closer to 5,000 calories considering her workouts. A ’scientific’ diet doesn’t give you more energy than what is in the food.

    Comment by kwandongbrian — October 25, 2009 @ 9:32 pm

  2. [...] Gets this, it has been confirmed that Kim Yu-na eats every day! [...]

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  3. [...] the way, do you remember how her former coach and former doctor described what she eats these days? For breakfast the world champion has a proper meal of steamed rice and soup, whereas red fruits [...]

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