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)
