In 1998 a heavy favorite 18 year old Michelle Kwan was beaten by a 15 year old Lipinski
In 2018 a heavy favorite 18 year old Evgenia Medvedeva was beaten by a 15 year old Zagitova
In 1998 Lipinski retires
In 2018 Zagitova retires
Kwan continues to compete for another 4 Years and ends up with the bronze medal in 2012
Medvedeva continues to compete for another 4 Years and ends up with a bronze medal (?) in 2022
Do you think history will repeat itself?
I think we will see a lot of up and coming skaters who will like Zagitova beat Medvedeva at her own game. I think in the next Olympic cycle women will have to have a quad or triple axel to compete leaving Evgenia behind technically.[/QUs
Sadly, i think no...the russian girls are so strong and they have a lot of talent to come from junior untill the next olympic game to replace the actual senior girls. Is not the case like other country where the girls can go at least 2 or 3 olympic games, or 4 like Costner. Russia have a lot of girls with better jumps and time to development their art for Beijin 2022.