well, in the last 35 years we've had a lot of seasons where the singles weren't the best at all (despite Georg Hackl and Jens Mueller winning a few Olympic and World titles in this span)
among the men, people like Markus Prock and Armin Zoeggeler have won tons of races and world cups in the Nienties and 2000's...and they haven't been the only ones
actually, there have been more periods with and/or dominating the field rather than
among the women, after the Doris & Angelika Neuner + Gerda Weissensteiner's runs in the early/mid Nineties, it's really been all
12 year old Grayson Coulter swam a long course meter 200m freestyle time of 1:54.40! The fastest ever 12 year old.
Also had some other incredible swims at the Queensland Championships.
12-Yr-OId Grayson Coulter Of NZL Clocks 1:54.40 LCM 200 Freestyle
There aren't 32 decent women's teams in the world. What will happen is a lot of boring matches.
Let's see how many 25-10 sets we'll have in this competition.
Unfortunately never able to catch up with Luge until the middle of the week, but we are seeing an incredible change at the top this season with dominating in the Singles. Don't know if this has ever happened before, but if it has, then certainly not since German Unification and probably not even then.