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Podium Predictions!

silverlake22

Record Breaker
Joined
Nov 12, 2009
I predict a winner in each discipline has already skated Seniors.

It's not the best comp to see up and coming skaters, but one to see how they are doing.

for up and coming skaters, NOVICE is the comp to watch.

I don't recognize any of the ladies participants as having competed in senior international events this season. I know sometimes there are a lot of people like that, but this year, in the ladies event at least, it seems like the skaters are actually junior skaters and not 18 year old senior skaters who just get sent to junior worlds because they didn't make the senior world team or want another competition and are technically young enough to go.
 

crawall

Rinkside
Joined
Jan 16, 2009
hmmm I like Kanako for Gold but the rest.....
SO I am a HUGE Kiri fan and despite the growth spurt, the last minute entry, and the fact she has been working on a new program and next year, I think she will skate-well.
I'm an ever HUGER(is that a word?) Kate Charbonneau fan, and if she skates clean, which she can, she will definitely be top 6. She is a great package.
Gao will do well. Agnes has no reputation and I am afraid her lack of speed will hold her back.
I have only seen Anna for the Russians, and wasn't all that impressed. As said before, they are little girls -I know this is Junior, but what a difference a couple of months can make!
I will be there to see it all. Leaving tomorrow night!
 

snowflake

I enjoy what I like
Record Breaker
Joined
Nov 10, 2008
I don't recognize any of the ladies participants as having competed in senior international events this season. I know sometimes there are a lot of people like that, but this year, in the ladies event at least, it seems like the skaters are actually junior skaters and not 18 year old senior skaters who just get sent to junior worlds because they didn't make the senior world team or want another competition and are technically young enough to go.

Joshi Helgesson(SWE) competed in GP seniors this season. She is 16, so why not go to junior worlds(4th last year) to get more expierence?

I will be there to see it all. Leaving tomorrow night!

Happy for you, enjoy, and please share your thoughts with us :)
 

cornell08

Final Flight
Joined
May 10, 2009
My bets are on Gao, Hanyu, Cong/Sui, and A Russian Dance Team for gold.
I love the Shibutani's OD, but their other programs don't shine. They do ethereal so well I have no idea where that FD came from. With Cinema Paradiso they looked like prodigies...here their freedance is another junior freedance. And they have got to up their difficulty level on lifts and make the twizzles look more smooth, fast and effortless-- I'm glad Maia's improved and hasn't had any stumbles this year but it won't be enough to beat the Russians.
 
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silverlake22

Record Breaker
Joined
Nov 12, 2009
hmmm I like Kanako for Gold but the rest.....
SO I am a HUGE Kiri fan and despite the growth spurt, the last minute entry, and the fact she has been working on a new program and next year, I think she will skate-well.
I'm an ever HUGER(is that a word?) Kate Charbonneau fan, and if she skates clean, which she can, she will definitely be top 6. She is a great package.
Gao will do well. Agnes has no reputation and I am afraid her lack of speed will hold her back.
I have only seen Anna for the Russians, and wasn't all that impressed. As said before, they are little girls -I know this is Junior, but what a difference a couple of months can make!
I will be there to see it all. Leaving tomorrow night!

Kiri and Kate need more technical difficulty if they want to be competitive on the senior level, Kate was only 7th at Canadian Nationals and it was a pretty weak field apart from Joannie, and as for Kiri her toe and sal are her only consistent triples, more often than not she falls on or two foots the flip and lutz, does not attempt a loop.

Also, pretty much ALL the girls at this competition are little girls, not just the Russians. With the exception of Zawadski they are for the most part teeny, Anna is one of the youngest competitors at the event and she is taller and actually looks older than a lot of the other girls like Kanako, Gao, Shelepen, Baga who are all older. That is why it is hard to tell if most of these girls will stay good in the future because they for the most part are still just little kids.
 
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Pandora

Spectator
Joined
Mar 3, 2010
The podium results of the Men will show that the 3 who are lucky also skate Seniors. JMO.

The US only sent those who are competing at seniors. The third alternate, Jason Brown, won the Junior Men's with a score that would have placed him in 6th or 7th place at the senior level...with less time to skate. He should have been given the chance to go to Junior Worlds.
 

mystichaze

On the Ice
Joined
Nov 7, 2007
Yikes, the US might walk away from these championships without any medals! When was the last time that happened?
 

silverlake22

Record Breaker
Joined
Nov 12, 2009
Yikes, the US might walk away from these championships without any medals! When was the last time that happened?

Gao might be able to pull off a bronze if her LP is as good as it normally is, she seems to be on a bit of a bronze medal streak this season. We'll see though, I kinda hope the top 3 ladies stay the top 3 because I really like all of them, so expressive :love:!
 
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