There are some juniors/emerging seniors who are promising - Lucrezia Beccari from Italy will still be junior this season (born in December 2003), but she did quite good last season in the junior circuit. Anita Östlund from Sweden competed already in seniors last season, has the goods but we'll see if she can compete consistently. Some of the Finnish girls show promise - Sofia Sula has grown a lot of height from last year and that maybe showed a little in Austria. Plus apparently she was trying out new jump combination(s).
I don't know whether they will be able to get to the Russian level ever, though. Their field seems soooooo deep at the moment that it seems unlikely that in the next couple of years anyone but Russian ladies will make it to the top of the podium at Europeans. But these things move in waves it seems - Russian ladies dominated the European scene in late 1990s/early2000s and then they just disappeared for a couple of years from the podium almost completely until the development probably fro Sochi brought them back again.
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I don't know whether they will be able to get to the Russian level ever, though. Their field seems soooooo deep at the moment that it seems unlikely that in the next couple of years anyone but Russian ladies will make it to the top of the podium at Europeans. But these things move in waves it seems - Russian ladies dominated the European scene in late 1990s/early2000s and then they just disappeared for a couple of years from the podium almost completely until the development probably fro Sochi brought them back again.
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