All Hail Queen Yuna!

"Every female figure skater in the United States who has Olympic aspirations and did not see Kim Yu-Na win the world championship Saturday night at Staples Center should be required to watch Kim's 'Sheherazade' routine before taking to the ice again," says the LA Times' Helene Elliott of the performance above — Kim's performance is a thing of beauty. Doing so will "remind them they are incredibly far from matching what the 18-year-old South Korean achieved and that they're unlikely to win a medal next February at the Vancouver Olympics."

The reviewer states that "every American woman and every American skater can learn something from Kim's seamless meshing of difficult jumps and intricate spins in a program that boosted her overall total to a record 207.71 points, the first woman to surpass 200 since this scoring system was adopted for the 2005 World Championships."

The reviewer notes "the unruffled calm she displayed in recovering from a sloppy double salchow and finishing her program with supreme confidence," "the way she expressed so much with her arms and carriage and face, creating a mood that entranced a nearly packed house," and "the sound of the crowd becoming hushed as she took off for her first element, a triple flip-triple toe loop combination jump, and its collective 'oooh' of awe and delight as her blade crunched safely on the ice twice."