Eight years ago, excited American skating fans were plotting the post-Kwan/Cohen/Hughes re-takeover of ladies' skating by the U.S. Just six months before, Caroline Zhang, Mirai Nagasu, and Ashley Wagner gave the U.S. its first sweep of the ladies' podium at the 2007 Junior Worlds. And in history since was just not what you would have expected based on what we saw in their potentials in 2007.