We discuss the favorites, the long shots, and all of the in-betweens leading up to the 2023 World Championships, happening this week in Japan.

This season has been the deepest dive we’ve personally taken into figure skating in a very long time, and looking back — for all of the post-Olympic year doldrums and troubling political issues that are very real — there’s a lot of skaters to be excited about leading into the biggest competition of the year.