You Young hopes to join quad race next season

The quad race in women's figure skating is heating up, and You Young wants to be a part of it.

South Korea's top finisher in the recent women's singles competition at the Olympic Winter Games Beijing 2022 indicated this weekend following a domestic competition that she will work to add quadruple jumps to her free skating routines from next season.

Only three women's skaters – ROC's Anna Shcherbakova, Alexandra Trusova, and Kamila Valieva – attempted quadruple jumps at Beijing 2022. The American Alysa Liu, who has performed quad jumps in international competition, opted not to attempt any in Beijing.

"I used to work on quadruple Salchow and Lutz in the past, but not before the Olympics this year," You said in quotes reported by Yonhap News Agency.

"After the end of this season, I will start practising them again for future competitions."

The 17-year-old You – who won gold at the Lausanne 2020 Winter Youth Olympic Games – finished sixth in the women's competition in Beijing, which was won by Shcherbakova. The full results of the team event and women's singles competitions at Beijing 2022 are provisional.

That made her the best-placed South Korean finisher in an Olympic women's figure skating competition since the legendary Yuna Kim, who won gold at Vancouver 2010 and silver at Sochi 2014.

Following in Kim's footsteps may not be easy, but just as You was inspired by her idol, she too has the chance to set the stage for the next generation.

The Republic of Korea hosts the next Winter Youth Olympic Games in Gangwon in 2024, a Games for which Kim has been named an ambassador.

That also means You's successor as the Youth Olympic champion will be crowned at a Games in her home country – and at the Gangneung Ice Arena, which also