Can it be close to 20 years since Tara Lipinski, then 15, upset Michelle Kwan at the 1998 Winter Games in Nagano, Japan, to become the youngest Olympic figure skating champion?

Sixteen years since Sarah Hughes won gold at the 2002 Olympics in Salt Lake City, with Kwan adding bronze? Twelve years since Sasha Cohen took silver in 2006 in Turin, Italy?

No American woman since has won an Olympic medal in the singles competition. And only one, Ashley Wagner, has won a medal at the annual world championships, taking silver in 2016. (She got bronze at the 2014 Winter Games in Sochi, Russia, in the newly added team event.)

That mostly fallow decade has created low expectations for any American woman to reach the medal podium at the 2018 Winter Games in February in Pyeongchang, South Korea.