Olympics - Figure skating: My mother is watching me from Heaven, says South Korea's Choi

Figure Skating - ISU World Championships 2017 - Ladies Free Skating - Helsinki, Finland - 31/3/17 - Dabin Choi of South Korea competes. REUTERS/Grigory Dukor

GANGNEUNG, South Korea (Reuters) - Among the scores of South Koreans uproariously cheering for hometown favourite Choi Dabin as she skated on Olympic ice for the first time on Sunday in the team event, one important person was missing -- her mother, who died last year.

As far as the teenaged figure skater was concerned, however, she still felt her mother's presence.