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Joesitz said:
Not sure if these were rhetorical questions, or one's you wished to be answered, but I plan on answering them
1. My guess is Kimmie will have two clean programs, but problems with under-rotation will hold her down in the standings. It will be interesting what kind of PCS scores she can come up with, coming off a top-six finish at the Olympics. My guess is they will be notably higher.
2. I think Gedenavanishvili (I don't think I have a hope of EVER spelling that right) has all the potential in the world. What encourages me is those triple-triples are CLEAN. Lots of other skaters are attempting scratchy, cheated, so-so 3/3 but her's are the real thing, like Kostner's. Sarah Meier also looks impressive. I think her PCS scores will start rising now as well, after getting herself on the map at both Euros and Olys. As for Poykio, she seems to be past her prime. She's been around for awhile, and she had a great season last year, highlighted by her ESM, so my guess is the retirement might be coming. I'm also a big Kostner fan. I just think that you can never count her out. She's in the perfect position right now: a not-so-stellar season, coming in as the underdog.
3. I expect Johnny will still either leave a jumping pass, or combination out, and leave himself either off the top two spots on the podium, or off the podium altogether. Johnny will be Johnny. I'd really like to see him try the quad in competition. They've showed numerous clips of him doing flawless ones on the practice ice, and I think this would be the perfect event for him to transfer those to the comppetition ice.
4. Lambiel might land the triple axel in either the short or the long, but not both. He may just end up doubling them both again; not necessarily a stupid move on his part, psychologically. I do think, however, he'll win the competition.
5. Not all of them, but enough to take the silver.
6. You bet he can. The international judges are starting to warm up to him, I think. If he skates two clean performances, you'll see him on the podium, because, I have a hunch that at this competition clean performances are going to be hard to come by, judging by the Olympics. The American man I have my eye on though is Lysacek; I believe he's in the perfect position right now. He doesn't have the pressure of an Olympics medalist, but he does have that clean long in the minds of the judges. He'll be ridingthe momentum, and I believe he learned a lesson about himself psychologically in Torino, and he's going to be a forced to be reckoned with in the next few years. I believe he'll go for the wuad in the long, but probably won't land it, or at least not clean.
7. I think the Chinese will sweep. Petrova/Tikhanov don't seem to have he jduges on their side like they used to. They've been put behind all of the Chinese pairs, and the German pair on different occasions, rightfully so. Personally though, I would love to see their careers end on a high note, with a world medal, maybe even the gold.
8. It seems like they're being set up to get the gold. As long as they stay off their bottoms, they should walk away with the gold, deservedly so. My number one wish for the 2006 ISU World Figure Skating Championships:
Some major costume changes in ice dance!
