Who Will Be The Next Olympic Ladies Champion?

[n_halifax]

Who do you think will be the next Olympic ladies champion? Vote and share your opinions here. Not sure if this has already been a thread/poll or not. If so, please disregard. :-)

[Macassar88]

I voted for who I hope will be the next olympic champ- Tuktamisheva
However, she will need to work on her presentation and ice coverage (among other things)
Hopefully she'll have a triple axel as well

[sky_fly20]

I voted for Queen Tuk

but where is Julia Lipnitskaya
she'll be 16 by 2014 right ? so she will compete at the Olympics

[mmcdermott]

I voted for Tuktamisheva as well, just because I think she's the most likely of the ladies listed. I would predict one of the Russian girls, maybe Tuktamisheva but Lipnitskaya and Sotnikova are also very promising. Most of the ladies in the list are unlikely to improve enough from where they're at now to even end up on the podium in 2014 IMO. Mao is a big question mark in my mind. Will she ever get back to her 2010 level?? Will she draw strength from her mother's passing?

[Rachmaninoff]

I voted for Tuktamisheva as well, just because I think she's the most likely of the ladies listed. I would predict one of the Russian girls, maybe Tuktamisheva but Lipnitskaya and Sotnikova are also very promising. Most of the ladies in the list are unlikely to improve enough from where they're at now to even end up on the podium in 2014 IMO. Mao is a big question mark in my mind. Will she ever get back to her 2010 level?? Will she draw strength from her mother's passing?

Yeah, I'd have definitely put Lipnitskaya and Sotnikova on there over Korpi and Flatt, and even Wagner and Suzuki, as much as I like them. Very good chance it'll be one of the young Russians. It'll be quite a fight between them in the next couple years. What about Kanako Murakami? Gracie Gold? Hard to say where they'll end up, but I'd say they have a much better chance than some of the women listed here.

I'm certainly not counting out Mao either.

[macy]

oh goodness i wanted to pick more than one! i think asada, tuktamysheva, sotnikova, lipnitskaia, maybe even gold. who knows, it's kind of a toss up between these few. my one hopeful is csizny if she gets a 3+3 or two. i want it for her, she deserves it, despite the talent of the russian babies. i think my dream top 5 would be czisny, asada, gold, sotnikova, lipnitskaia. although that is probably very unlikely...i do enjoy tuktamysheva, but there is just something that i don't like about her skating.