And when this draw happened, everyone was concerned for her. And yet, she and Brian, both, were thrilled with the draw, because she is one heck of a competitor and she has fire in her belly. She just wants to go out there and prove who is best.

Now who better to prove it than James Bond? That's her character in the short program. And this program has the honor of being the all-time highest-scoring short program under the current judging system.

It'll be the first two jumping passes, and the rest of it she owns. Good speed going into this combination of triple lutz, triple toe loop. And now, her nemesis, the triple flip. She's struggled with it in the past - the jump she fell so hard on today in practice.

She has such a wonderful quality of strength and sensuality with a little flirt thrown in there, too.

Not much emotion, but that's why they call her Queen Yuna.

To be able to perform like THAT after knowing how her main competitor performed is phenomenal. What a woman!!

Just a performance skated with much greater speed, a lot more personality. She really worked the program much more than Mao, I feel. But it's gonna come down to the slow-motion replays of these combinations and all the jumps to make sure that she gets full full credit for every rotation. What a performance. Wow!

It continues a theme we've seen throughout all the figure skating competition here at the Olympics of the skaters rising to the moment.

She's suffered downgrades before, and the technical caller in this event is the only one that's ever called her on a downgrade. She's very strict. Triple lutz, one, two, three. Yes, she has a rotation there by all appearances and then the triple toe loop, one, two, three, yes!! Oh, you just will this to happen. You don't want her to lose. With all this courage and all this strength, you just want her to get full credit for everything. Triple toe loop here, one, two, three. And it looks backwards to me. If it's anything, it's right at the quarter. And her nemesis, the triple flip, reaches back. Good speed in this going-in. One, two, three. A little close on the way down. But again by all appearances, it looks like full credit.

He's done such a great job for her. I don't know how many people in the world could coach this woman with everything that she has on her from her country. And he's just done a magnificent job of grounding her, giving her what she needs.

73.79 is the magic number.

The short program score, please. She has earned 78 point ….

78.50. That's an all-time record for a short program. That is the new world record for a short program score in the current scoring system. And it puts Kim Yuna into first place.

And to do that after her biggest competitor? Woww!!!!!!

She did it. She delivered the goods, but without a lot of impact.

I agree and no triple-triple combination, either. So, she did play it safe.

Kim Yuna onto the ice. She'll be next. Brian Orser, her coach.

And my heart just sort of started beating a little faster, just seeing her take the ice. This has been so anticipated.

Her total score, personal best.

Final drink for Kim Yuna. Brian Orser with clenched fists, sends her out onto the ice.

He will be skating every move with her.

You know, there is a cultural sidebar to this rivalry with Kim Yuna and the Japanese skaters with their long history of hostility with Japan. Any defeat of that country is memorable for the Koreans. In South Korea, she sells everything from cars, jewelry, water, other food products. But her humility keeps her wildly popular, the most popular celebrity in South Korea. But she wrote a book of short essays about the pressure that was published last month. And she wrote, "My performance falters, not only people around me, but the whole nation might turn their back on me." That's the pressure she carries.

Technically, it'll be the first two jumping passes. First one, the triple-triple combination, she goes into this with so much speed. Triple lutz and the triple toe loop. And the second, that triple flip, when she gets a little nervous and tight. She tends to pre-rotate her upper body. She needs to stay still on the take-off and straight back into the toe.

A little smile after that?

This is her difficult combination – double axel, triple toe loop.

Beautiful, speed throughout.

Last hurdle in this program, triple lutz.

Oh, my goodness! This is glorious. It's one of the greatest Olympic performances I have ever seen.

And the crowd mesmerized during her skate leaping to their feet. The coronation is complete. Long live the Queen!!

She made it look so easy; this was not easy for her.

No one can walk a mile in those shoes. No one! The pressure she's under at her age (constantly) to have to leave her country, train in Toronto. Brian Orser, and if these scores are anything like what's anticipated, Brian Orser finally has his gold medal.

The one that eluded him twice?

Ah, there he is.

And as Sandra said, every move, he's over there on the boards, taking it with his skater. And that gold medal he so desperately wanted, if the scores are what we expect. Finally, he is in tears of relief. No doubt.

And she is just a wonderful combination of shyness with this fire, this competitive ability.

All he can say is "wow." What a wonderful combination - Kim Yuna, Brian Orser, and choreographer David Wilson. Together, they've made magic. David and Brian have protected her these years building up to this event.

And she's found a way over the last two years and just pulled away from her rivals.

What was magical about the performance was the moments that she took to focus into the audience and to play with the choreography and to be relaxed within it all and to really feel the music as she skated.

Here come the scores.

They're gonna be huge. Want a new record.

That's.. That's the best ever. 228.56. Their old record, they destroyed their old record. She held the record at 210. And now, wow! That was something.

And the only woman that has a chance or had a chance of beating her is on the ice next.

Listening to all this, oh my goodness!