Agreed. I think she's close to a lock for next year and won't be surprised to see her on the Boston 2016 team but that might be the max. I'd love if she shocked us all though.To be honest i hope we have some skaters who have passed Ashley by 2018 or it means we have no good Ladies coming up. She will be 26 years old and how much better can she get?
Maybe D&R won't ever be World Champions, but if they stay World medalists that's still very good. I think part of what some people dislike about Megan sometimes is her outspoken personality. I noticed on other threads during Olympics and Worlds that some people disliked her predicting that she and Eric were going to win the World title and that they were good enough to be #1! She's not afraid to be brash.
There was at least one similar thread.
Yuzu's going to win again the world title and the 4S won't be a problem anymore.
Denis will win the silver medal at the WC.
Nam will have some good results (at least top 10 at WC).
Unfortunately, Machida won't repeat the great performance from this year.
S/K will beat V/T one time next season, but not at the worlds.
Elena will win the european championship.
Adelina will get a medal at the worlds, but not the gold medal.
V/M and D/W will officially retire.
No notable results for Han, Kovtun, Jason or Polina.
I'm sure every country would be happy to have such .. how is it?.. mediocre skater as Adelina Sotnikova.Agree...except the Adelina part...I don't think she will ever have the results she got at the Olympics again Russia has some great young girls skaters who are far better than Adelina...
Some of you guys seriously underestimate Kovtun (or Russian fed's politic), if he is number one of his country which is a big figure skate country and can constantly land quad, he will get big upgrade in pcs for sure.
That's what I'm fear of. I can see the thread Can Kovtun close the gap with Hanyu coming soon...
Apparently Miyabi Oba already lands 3A's cleanly in practice.I can't see any lady having 3A next season; it is not as easy to just do one. But someone may have it before the next Olympics.
was posted in the wrong thread earlier:
6 C/B will not be US No.1 and will not medal at Worlds
Given the fact that they won't face W/P in their GP events, it would be REALLY a meltdown for them to be beaten by someone in BOTH of them... C/B? Possible, but in both events is really unlikely. Then, who's left? Shibs, who are far far behind them right now? S/K or I/Z? Debuting couples winning GP gold? Even more unlikely!1 C/L will not win a GP gold, will not win Worlds again
Given the fact that they won't face W/P in their GP events, it would be REALLY a meltdown for them to be beaten by someone in BOTH of them... C/B? Possible, but in both events is really unlikely. Then, who's left? Shibs, who are far far behind them right now? S/K or I/Z? Debuting couples winning GP gold? Even more unlikely!