Tuesday, February 20, 2018

It's ALL Happening: 2018 Winter Olympics (Ladies Predictions)

And just like that, here we are at the last figure skating event of these Olympic Games!

It's time for the women of the sport to step up, and as with the dance predictions, I'm gonna step a little further out on the limb and try to guess the entire top 10. (I managed to get 60% right on ice dance, but don't worry... I harbor ZERO illusions that this will be as successful!)

My predictions for the ladies are as follows:

GOLD: Evgenia Medvedeva (OAR)
SILVER: Alina Zagitova (OAR)
BRONZE: Gabby Daleman (CAN)- This is as good a guess as I've got for this Wild Card slot

4th: Maria Sotskova (OAR)
5th: Mirai Nagasu (USA)- of course I'd love her to go higher and if she nails both programs (and both triple axels), she will
6th: Kaetlyn Osmond (CAN) because of the ones I've mentioned up to now she's the most inconsistent this year
7th: Satoko Miyahara (JPN) who I adore, but has jumps more prone to underrotations and faltered somewhat at 4CC last month
8th: Bradie Tennell (USA) who has the jumps, quality and consistency, but has the disadvantage of skating first of the 30 athletes tonight and didn't get great component scores in the Team Event
9th: Carolina Kostner (ITA)-- the reigning OBM may make the final flight via her stunning short program, but won't have the technical content to stay that high in the standings
10th: Kaori Sakamoto (JPN) seems to be in a similar situation as Tennell with regards to experience/components, but could prove to be the biggest surprise in this top 10 (in that she could go much, much higher).

Okay, one more: 
11th Karen Chen (USA)... no I didn't forget her; just feel like this is where she'll end up. Hope she's in the single digits though!


2 comments:

Dave said...

Agree with your medal placement expectations. Enjoyed your comments as well.
- Dave

Kelli Lawrence said...

Thanks!