PYEONGCHANG, South Korea – The women’s figure skating competition hasn’t begun at these Olympic Games, yet we already know who is going to come in first and second, barring epic collapses on the ice, which could happen, but probably won’t.
An Olympic Athlete from Russia will win, and another Olympic Athlete from Russia will come in second in the competition that begins Wednesday with the short program and ends Friday with the long. It will be either 18-year-old two-time defending world champion Evgenia Medvedeva, or 15-year-old Grand Prix Final and European champion Alina Zagitova. Or vice versa. Med and Zag.