- Joined
- Nov 12, 2009
Nobody's even talking about next year. Only one of them will be old enough to participate in the next WC.
Yeah, only one, and that is Sofia Burikova, who isn't one of the best. If Anna had skated a clean LP at Jr Worlds the judges might have put her ahead of Murakami considering the judges put her ahead of Murakami in the SP, she hurt her hip in practice though and was limping when she skated for her LP though and that combined with the nerves made it not so hot.
Give these girls a few years, I'm sure some of them will survive puberty with most of the jumps intact. You have to bear in mind that Murakami is significantly older than Shelepen, Ovcharova, and Agafonova. I mean, she is a year and a half older than Anna who beat her in the SP and almost a year older than Polina who beat her in the SP at the JGPF and only lost to her at that event because of PCS. Birukova and Ovcharova may be mostly done growing too, they don't really look like little kids, and if they are it likely means they will continue to progress in coming years without a lot of setbacks and maybe pull ahead of the other girls. Elizaveta was 12 until a few months ago so honestly, she has plenty of time.
This is what Yuna was skating like when she was 14:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZacRA9DqSo0
Not exactly spectacular, so I'd say those young Russian girls are doing pretty darn good considering they are so young and a lot of them only had doubles just last year.