1 Mao
2 Yuna
3 Carolina
4 Miki
5 Yukari
6 Kimmie
The podium for women will be:
1 Yu Na Kim
2 Mao Asada
3 Miki Ando
4 Kimmie Meissner
5 Yukari Nakano
6 Caroline Zhang (I hope)
6 Caroline- I wish and hope for her to be here, if not higher. She still has really small jumps compared to the others and underrotates etc. Otherwise her spins and speed are lovely, and I can see good artistry in what she does. I really hope she will give a phenomenal performance to kickstart her career at Worlds. Perhaps when she gets stronger physically she will rotate all her jumps.
Carolina- I think she's not going to get to the top at all anytime. Sadly she will not be consistent with her jumps and will take a lot of odd beating to end up at the podium this time. She does skate really really fast though.
In men's there's the question of high how are the judges willing to place the new JR guns Patrick, Sergei and Stephen? Just look at how Patrick was held down mark wise at the GPF.