The Dominican Republic’s candidate for Miss Universe 2006 is ranked among the top 15 beauty contestants in two contest web sites as of Saturday, 15 July.
In the missology.com site, Mia Taveras is ranked 8th in a list of the most likely to win contenders compiled by the web site. The leading contender is Desiree Duran of Bolivia.
See http://www.missosology.org/missuniverse06/mu06hotpicks.html
In the globalbeauties.com site’s grand slam ranking, she is ranked 12th among the top 15. The leading contender on this list is Miss Venezuela. See http://www.globalbeauties.com/gsr.htm
The Miss Universe contest will be held on 23 July in Los Angeles, California.