Olympics: Top 10 and "dark horses"

[gsk8]

Which skaters/teams do you think will place in the top ten in each discipline? Who do you think the "dark horses" will be?

 

[el henry]

Manifesting Donovan for the Free Skate.

Everything else is gravy.

 

[4everchan]

All the teams will place in the top ten of the team event

For the rest : in women and pairs, Russia will have at least their 3 entries in the top 6.
Men : Japanese/USA showdown, could be 6 members of the top 10.
Ice Dance : I am hoping for 2 Canadian teams in the top 10...

 

[TT_Fin]

I put Junhwan Cha 4th on my prediction list, not many seem to have him in top6 what i quickly looked for others. In ladies the Koreans maybe higher than expected.

 

[Jaana]

Men
I´d guess that among top six might be (in no particular order)
- one Russian
- two Americans
- two Japanese
- Cha

The rest of top ten (in no particular order)
- one Japanese
- two Russians
- one American

 

[ladyjane]

I suspect the top 5 in pairs will consist only of Russians and Chinese skaters. In the top 10, I think one of or both American Pairs will sneak in, as well as one or two Canadian Pairs. Perhaps the Georgians will fit in there as well. Dark horses for the top 10 are the Germans and the Spanish (which perhaps is more a wish on my part, because I like them so much).

 

[Ruthypegs]

Deniss Vasiljevs and Keegan Messing for top 10 - Deniss's personal best score is just over 1 point below Junhwan Cha's, and Keegan's is less than 3 points below.

 

[Artemisa]

well.. I think team Georgia could be a Dark horse

 

[Skater Boy]

I suspect the top 5 in pairs will consist only of Russians and Chinese skaters. In the top 10, I think one of or both American Pairs will sneak in, as well as one or two Canadian Pairs. Perhaps the Georgians will fit in there as well. Dark horses for the top 10 are the Germans and the Spanish (which perhaps is more a wish on my part, because I like them so much).

What about the Japanese pairs. They have been crushing it.

 

[ladyjane]

What about the Japanese pairs. They have been crushing it.

Yes, them too.

 

[lariko]

I am also looking at Georgian team and Korean women as potential dark horses.

My biggest heart’s wish for men, is for Russian teen titans to end in top 10 (with Mozalev being the darkest of all my horses), for Grassl—in top 6, for Uno or Zhou—on the podium.

In women, I am hoping for Safonova to be in top 10, a Young You—in top 6, and Trusova on the podium, beating Scherbakova

In pairs, I want B/K to win (impossible, I know) and for J/R and DellaM/G to make top 10…

And, in dance, I just want to see S/B and S/D make top 6

 

[Wafflecakes]

I am really struggling with this question in my predictions.... predicting so few upsets

 

[brens78]

I’m predicting Russia gold and silver in the ladies with a surprise bronze. Fingers crossed it could be Kaori or Wakaba

 

[Moxiejan]

I think Vincent could be a “dark horse”; possibly sneak in for bronze.

 

[yume]

Men:
Skaters who will be in top 10 in any order: Shoma UNO, Yuma KAGIYAMA, Yuzuru HANYU, Nathan CHEN, Vincent ZHOU, Jason BROWN, Boyang JIN, Keegan MESSING, Mark KONDRIATUK, Daniel Grassl.
Dark horse for bronze: Vincent Zhou

Women:
Skaters who will be in top 10 in any order: VALIEVA, Anna SHCHERBAKOVA, Alexandra TRUSOVA, Kaori SAKAMOTO, Wakaba HIGUCHI, Young YOU, Yelim KIM, Loena Hendrickx, Mariah Bell, Alysa Liu.
Dark horses for bronze: Young YOU, Kaori SAKAMOTO, Loena Hendrickx.

 

[brushalley]

Dark horse for dance bronze. Stepanova/Bukin!

 

[Skatingcat]

I would love it if a Dark Horse came in for the ladies event. It's boring to me if one country sweeps all the medals

 

[figureskatingandrainbows]

I would love it if a Dark Horse came in for the ladies event. It's boring to me if one country sweeps all the medals

Same at the very least if all three Russian women end up on the podium I want them to have the skates of their lives and real Olympic moments

 

[CanadianSkaterGuy]

What about the Japanese pairs. They have been crushing it.

I actually think they'll come 5th and make the final flight. They are key to Japan's team medalling and if they slay there, they'll have Olympic level PCS coming into the individual.

 

[CanadianSkaterGuy]

Same at the very least if all three Russian women end up on the podium I want them to have the skates of their lives and real Olympic moments

Agreed. At least one of them needs to skate clean or close to clean and win. It's really not a good look if the winner has multiple falls/errors even if they are technically on a different planet than the rest of the field. It's astonishing how we thought 7 jumping passes in the second half was an unfair advantage to the rest of the field, and now look at them.

I don't think there's anything wrong with a Russian sweep if they deserve it. I mean, the other countries are welcome to improve themselves. I just hope the PCS will be scored accordingly even though Eteri's girls get de facto huge PCS no matter how they skate.