Ladies:
1 Mao
2 Gracie
3 Kanako or Osmond
Men:
1 Yuzuru
2 Daisuke
3 Miner
Pairs:
1 Pang/Tong
2 Duhame/Radford
3 Sui/Han
Ice Dance:
1 Davis/White
2 Virtue/Moir
3 Chock/Bates
No Akiko?
Im afraid Akiko is having a Leonova moment
she hasn't done well since GPF, she may not even be sent to Worlds
Akiko's competition last week, she lost to Imai
SP: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CS69fWME6gY
LP: http://youtu.be/aqAELKIjZnM
Pairs:
1 Pang/Tong
2 Duhame/Radford
3 Sui/Han
In the last 6 years, three 4CCs took place in Asia: 2008, 2010, 2011. In the Ladies event, of the 9 medalists, 6 were Asian and 2 were of Asian descent. Draw your own conclusions.
The competition is in Japan and there are four Asian judges (CHN, JPN, TPE, KOR). I don't expect to see more than one non-Asian skater on the Men's and Ladies podiums.
In the last 6 years, three 4CCs took place in Asia: 2008, 2010, 2011. In the Ladies event, of the 9 medalists, 6 were Asian and 2 were of Asian descent. Draw your own conclusions.
Well, wallylutz, you obviously have an anti-Gold bias, so of course from your point of view, anyone who doesn't predict Osmond to win every competition has an anti-Osmond bias.
Osmond is quite good but she has only two Senior international competitions on her resume, both with limited fields and both in the early fall. Now if she had had a clean SP and a clean 7-triple FS in both competitions, I might understand the Osmond hype. But she had only 4 clean triples in the Nebelhorn FS and only 3 clean triples in the SC FS. Her SP is consistently good, but her FS is consistently not quite so good.
Which woman has had flawless FS in every competition since the start of the season? Not Kim, not Asada, nor Kostner and forget about Wagner.