Your hopes for gold

[Tove]

ok, sort of realistic hopes:

men: Klimkin
woman: Arikawa
pairs: Obertas & Slavnov(since Katarina & Otto withdrew....sobb)
dance: Denkova & Stavisky

 

[sk8er1964]

My unrealistic wish list would be...

Ladies: Cohen, Arakawa, Kirk
Men: Weir, Joubert, Van DerPerren
Dance: Belbin/Agosto

 

[Joesitz (RIP)]

My unrealistic list, but would not mind at all:

Men - Weir or Klimkin

Ladies - Arakawa

Pairs - Orsher and Lucash or I&B

Dance - Gregory and Petuhka

Joe

 

[boggartlaura]

Mens: Klimkin or Lambiel
Pairs: Petrova & Tikhonov
Dance: Denkova & Staviski, Chait & Sakhnovski, or Belbin & Agosto
Ladies: Kwan or Cohen

 

[brenlynn]

my very unrealistic wishes for gold....

ladies - jenny kirk
men - johnny weir
dance - tanith and ben
pairs - orscher & lucash

yes, a US sweep... it'll happen

 

[chuckm]

Ladies: Kwan, Kirk, Arakawa (hope)
Kwan, Suguri, Cohen (probably)

Men: Plushenko, Joubert, Weir (hope)
Plushenko, Joubert, Klimkin (probably)

Pairs: Shen/Zhao, Pang/Tong, Zhang/Zhang (hope)
Shen/Zhao, Tot/Marinin, Petrova/Tikhonov (probably)

Dance: Denkova/Staviyski, Navka/Kost, Belbin/Agosto (hope)
Navka/Kost, Den/Stav, Grush/Gon (probably)

 

[alina]

dreams:
Ladies: Irina

Menlushenko

Dance: Winkler/Lohse

 

[pairsfan]

(Katarina & Otto withdrew....sobb)

Noooooooooo!! Why?

 

[topaz]

Ladies: Michelle Kwan

Men's: Johnny Weir or Brian Joubert.

I'm pulling for Johnny a little more. US hasn't had a Men's world champ since 1996.

Ice Dance: Denkova and STAVISKI

Pairs: Shen and Xhao

 

[shine]

men - Sandhu or Lambiel
ladies - Rochette or Maniachenko
dance - Denkova & Staviyski
pairs - Totmianina & Marinin

 

[equestrianguy]

Ladies: Kwan
Just because she is so consistant and has had such a long fasinating career.. She loves what she is doing and is a true professional competitor!

Mens: Sandau or Klimkin
I love both these men artisticly! They bring something new to the ice... Dance quality, interesting moves, and different music ..

Dance: Navka and her partner ? lol
I love Navka! She is so exotic on the ice and I love her long body lines and classic sensual class...

Pairs: Hmmmmm Chinese, Chinese, Chinese lol

 

[sarahmistral]

Ladies: Sasha OR Shizuka (two skaters I really like who always seem to fall short of what their talent and skills dictate should happen, against the rest of the field)
Gents: Ilia Klimkin OR Stephane Lambiel (I can dream too, can't I)--though it'd be fun to see a hungry Plushy pull out a victory after two uncharacteristic losses
Pairs: Not very excited about it, ho hum, Shen and Zhao are going to win, big whup (most of the time, they whup everyone in sight at big comps these days)
Dance: Don't really watch enough to comment--the last competitive dance performances I recall enjoying were Grishuk & Platov's Nagano FD as well as Anissina & Peizirat's (Romeo & Juliet)

The countdown continues; though I prefer reading spoilers most of the year (everything being broadcast in delay except Worlds and Olympics ANYWAY), this promises to be one competition worth watching live--it will be live, right?

Sarah

 

[bronxgirl]

Ladies: Kwan (I always hope for her. I can't imagine how much the pressure must increase each year with the expectations of her fans and the media)

Men: Joubert

Dance: Belbin and Agosto (I love the music to West Side Story)

Pairs: Shen and Zhao. (They are amazing to watch - at least they are to me)

 

[Ximena]

My hopes for Worlds are

Men: Plushenko, I really REALLY really hopes he does it
Ladies: Fumie (or Irina..but that is quite unlikely)
Pair: S&Z, I love "Nutcraker" so they won me when they choose that for their free skate
Dance: N&K

 

[Ladskater]

Men - Emanuel Sandhu

Ladies - Sasha Cohen

Pairs - Annabelle Langlois and Patrice Archetto

Ice Dance - Marie-France Dubreuil and Patrice Lauzon

"You may say I'm a dreamer/but, I am not the only one...."

 

[clairecloutier]

Ladies--Michelle Kwan (my favorite skater)

Men--Stephane Lambiel (probably no chance at all, but I like his skating)

Pairs--Shen & Zhao (love them; love the Nutcracker program)

Dance--Denkova & Staviyski (they're interesting to watch) or Delobel & Shoenfelder (again, fun to watch)

 

[Ninjagirl]

I only have "whishes" when it comes to the men and the pairs

I hope that Plushenko will win the gold

and of course, nothing would make me happier than if Tatiana and Maxim won the gold, but since she's been injured I really don't get my hopes up.

 

[dorispulaski]

This is totally unreality, but
Men: Klimkin (and I secretly hope for some color medal for him)
Ladies: Kwan (but I hope Sasha gets her first medal, and Shizuka gets hers.) This will be best for Fumie, who seems to be not improving. It will give her a wake up!

Pairs: I just love Shen and Zhao. But I would like to see I&B in the top 6 with 2 clean programs. I would like P&T to skate awesome and finish second. I like their Circus Princess program,
first ever.

Dance: N&K deserve it totally, but I love D&S and B&A better.
But my happiest wish would be for Winkler and Lohse to win, and if not win, medal, in Dortmund.

And here's a list that I just want to see skate clean and finish anywhere in the top 10 ( greedy me):
Lambiel
van der Perren
Murvanidze
Weir

Jenny!
Sebasteyn

Orscher Lucash
Zagorska Siudek

Wing and Lowe
Gregory and Petukhov
Faiella Scali

Of course none of this is going to happen except perhaps Kwan and S&Z.

dpp

 

[gracefulswan]

pairs: S&Z (their long program is much better than T&M, imo)
dance: don't really care...though it would be nice to see B&A medal

mens: plushenko
ladies: kwan or cohen (i'm rooting for both... would really like to see kwan claim a 6th world title.. or to see if cohen can finally put it together and win a major comp. PERFECTLY, mind you)

 

[janetliz]

Men: Emanuel Sandhu
Ladies: Sasha Cohen
Pairs: Marcoux/Buntin
Dance: Belbin/Agosto


For men, I wanted to put Jeff Buttle, but in order to do that, I would have to be hoping for illness/injury to either Emanuel or Ben Ferreira, and I don't want to do that.