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From KQED. From KQED.

From KQED in San Francisco, I'm Mina Kim.

Coming up on Forum, we hear my conversation with 1992 Olympic gold medalist and world champion figure skater,

Christy Yamaguchi, recorded last week as part of KQED's Forum Live series of in-person events.

We talked about winning the gold medal and her work on children's literacy,

anti-Asian racism, and the scandals and global turmoil that plagued this year's Winter Olympics and are now affecting the Paralympic Games, which have just begun. In a

last-minute change, Russian athletes will not be allowed to compete. Join my conversation

with Christy Yamaguchi after this news.

This is Forum. I'm Mina Kyi. Christy Yamaguchi, she's the U.S. champion and two-time world champion figure skater who won the gold medal at the 1992 Olympic Games in Albertville, France, inspiring many skaters, including Asian-American figure skaters ever since.

I sat down with the California native last week at KQED headquarters in San Francisco as part of our forum live series of in-person and live-streamed interviews.

And we began by talking about how the Olympics was usually a moment of global togetherness, but that world events and the doping issues involving Russian figure skaters weighed on our minds.

I asked Yamaguchi whether she'd been

able to watch the performances of U.S. skaters and enjoy the Olympics just the same. So definitely

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