Who was/is the greater skater?

by U.S. Figure Skating

In a Facebook poll of 9,387 respondents, 98.8% chose “Yu-Na Kim (No. 4 seed)”. How we count

Yu-Na Kim (No. 4 seed)
98.8%
Sonja Henie (No. 1 seed)
1.2%
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Yu-Na Kim opened at 95% on day one and only tightened her grip from there — 97% by day 2, 98% by day 3, cresting at 99% and holding through the final stretch. Of 9,387 votes cast over six days, 9,279 went her way. No lead change, no late surge — just one of the most one-sided finishes a poll can produce.

The tiny Henie camp still tells a story: 108 voters, split almost evenly by geography, with the U.S. and U.K. leaning her way while South Korea unsurprisingly rallied hard behind Kim. Women drove both camps, but Kim's coalition ran nearly six times deeper than Henie's among female voters alone.

  • Day-One Blowout · Kim opened at 95% and never dropped below 95%.
  • Zero Lead Changes · Henie trailed from vote one through vote 9,387.
  • Geographic Split · U.S. and U.K. leaned Henie; South Korea powered Kim.
  • Gender Gap · Kim drew 11 female voters sampled versus Henie's 8.