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MM - didn't we (the forum) discuss the pre-Olympic Worlds and realized that the winner of such events is not usually the Oly winner.
There are exceptions, of course. Hamil, Baiul, Flemming, Button, Jenkins. who else?
Joe
I think the Pattern was that more female skaters have won the pre Olympic worlds to their Olympic title.
In your list Hamill did not win her pre Olympic worlds (she won the post Olympic worlds) it was de Leuw who won '75 worlds.
I only delved as far back as the Mens and Ladies singles winners back to '76 Olympics and found that only one man managed the feat - Hamilton, no other man has.
As far as the women are concerned its just short of 50/50 and the ones that did win their pre-Olympic words all cam e in a streak:
Witt in '88
Yamaguchi in '92
Baiul in '94
Lipinski in '98
Ant