Kim Yu-na

The 2010 Winter Olympics Games are just three months away, so figure skater Kim Yu-na has been gearing up to grab the gold medal. She knows she has to remain highly focused if she's going to be victorious in Vancouver in February. "I have three months until the Olympics, so I can't let my guard down or get absent-minded," Kim said.

"It's early in the season so many skaters aren't in their top form yet, but they're all very talented and great athletes," Kim said through her management agency IB Sports on Tuesday. "But I don't want to pay too much attention to how others are doing, I'd rather focus on my own skating and do my best. I'm currently working on perfecting my jumps and spins, and improving my facial expressions and some rough areas in my choreography so that I can master the programs."

Kim expressed her excitement about participating in the Olympics. "Every athlete dreams about the Olympics. I dreamed of becoming a figure skater while watching Michelle Kwan skating in the 1998 Nagano Olympics. Just thinking now that I'm going to be participating in the Olympics myself, my heart is pounding."

Kim has already positioned herself as a leading contender for the gold in Vancouver. In the first Grand Prix event of the season, the Trophée Eric Bompard in Paris last month, she won first place with 210.03 points, the highest score ever earned by a woman skater.

In the second event of the season, which Kim skipped, Miki Ando of Japan came in first place with 171.93 points, some 40 points behind Kim's Paris score. The story was not too different in the third event, where Japan's Akiko Suzuki took first with 176.66 points. Meanwhile, Mao Asada of Japan, who is regarded as Kim's closest rival, is in a serious slump.

Kim will compete in the fifth Grand Prix event, Skate America 2009, in Lake Placid, New York, on Nov. 12.