The Ladies Olympic figure skating event will take place Feb. 19 and 20. Americans Gracie Gold, Ashley Wagner, and Polina Edmunds will be making their Olympic debut as they represent USA.
The showdown between Korea's Ice Queen Yuna Kim and Russia's darling Ice Princess Julia Lipnitskaia (Yulia Lipnitskaya) is also among the exciting programs expected at the ladies single figure skating competition.
A record-number of viewers are expected to tune into watch the short program on Wednesday, Feb. 19 at 10 a.m. ET, with Russians hoping that its latest teen prodigy can trump South Korea's defending champion.
The free skate program will take place the next day, on Thursday, Feb. 20, which will determine the Olympic ladies' figure skating champion.
Yuna Kim will be seeking her second consecutive gold medal at the Sochi games, but will face fierce competition from Julia, who won both the short and free skate program at the figure skating team event a week ago – bumping Team Russia to the gold medal in the Olympic's first team skate event.
Kim will skate before Julia on Wednesday's short program. She is 17<sup>th in line to skate, followed by Julia, who will skate 25<sup>th.
See the full results and scores here.
Americans Polina Edmunds will skate 12<sup>th, followed by Gracie Gold 22<sup>nd, and Ashley Wagner 27<sup>th.
Below is the order of the 30 ladies competing on Wednesday's short program event.
1. Elena Glebova – Estonia 2. So Youn Park – South Korea 3. Gabrielle Daleman – Candada 4. Natalia Popova – Ukraine 5. Jenna McCorkell – Great Britain 6. Kerstin Frank – Austria 7. Kexin Zhang – China 8. Kaetlyn Osmond – Canada 9. Brooklee Han – Australia 10. Isadora Williams – Brazil 11. Haejin Kim – South Korea 12. Polina Edmunds – USA 13. Nicole Rajicova – Slovakia 14. Elizaveta Ukolova – Czech Republic 15. Anne Line Gjersem – Norway 16. Elene Gedevanishvili – Georgia 17. Yuna Kim – South Korea 18. Nathalie Weinzierl – Germany 19. Viktoria Helgesson – Sweden 20. Kanako Murakami – Japan 21. Valentina Marchei – Italy 22. Gracie Gold – USA 23. Zijun Li – China 24. Akiko Suzuki – Japan 25. Yulia Lipnitskaya – Russia 26. Carolina Kostner – Italy 27. Ashley Wagner – USA 28. Mae Berenice Meite – France 29. Adelina Sotnikova – Russia 30. Mao Asada – Japan
See the ladies' figure skating program NBC TV schedule on Feb. 19 -20, 2014 below:
Feb. 19 - Ladies Short Program Time: 10 a.m. ET on NBC Sports Network (live stream via NBCOlympics.com) / 8 p.m. ET on NBC (replay)
Feb. 20 – Ladies Free Skating Program Time: 10 a.m. ET on NBC Sports Network (live stream via NBCOlympics.com) / 8 p.m. ET on NBC (replay)
