Skating coach returns to orphan roots in South Korea

PYEONGCHANG, South Korea (AP) — Kim Muir can now say that she has made it all the way back.

To the place where her life began in so much uncertainty. To the place where she was adopted as a 4-year-old orphan by an American family that raised her as its own.

The skating coach, now 45, got to witness one of her students, U.S. women's hockey player Megan Keller, win a gold medal at the Winter Olympics in a 3-2 shootout win over Canada — with her two children sitting in the stands at Gangneung Ice Center sharing the exciting moment.

"It's a blessing that my life has gone full circle, that I get to be here," Muir said Thursday. "I get to be here with my children. And it's just amazing, just…