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Alpine skiing

At least 33% of starters in men's slalom will not reach the finish.

Mikaela Shiffrin will win exactly 3 gold medals.

Biathlon

Lithuania's mixed relay team will not get lapped. (this one is a brain teaser even for @Werloc :d)

Curling

No nation will win a medal in all 3 events.

At least one end in the entire tournament will finish with a score 6-0.

Figure skating

Aimee Buchanan (ISR) - the only figure skater that will contest the team event, but not the individual event - will not finish last in the team event short program.

Luge

There will be at least one tie in men's or women's singles after 4 runs.

Edited by dcro

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Some quick thoughts

 

Ice Hockey

  • At least one of Canada or the United States will win a medal in the men's ice hockey tournament
  • A team from Group B will defeat a team from Group A in the quarterfinals of the women's ice hockey tournament

Curling

  • A team from Asia (China, Japan, South Korea) will medal in any curling event
  • Canada will defend its gold medals in the men's and women's curling events.

Luge

  • A nation failing to win a medal in the individual events (singles and doubles) will medal in the team relay

 

Bobsleigh

  • At least one athlete will win two medals in bobsleigh
  • Humphries (CAN) will win her third gold medal in two-women's bobsleigh

 

Figure Skating

  • Spain will win its first ever medal in figure skating
  • No European nation will win gold in figure skating

 

Overall

  • Norway will finish first on the medal table
  • The Netherlands will only win medals in speed skating
  • Japan will finish higher than China on the medal table
  • A nation will win six or more medals without winning gold
  • South Korea will finish in the top five on the medal table

 

I'll think of more

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Ice Hockey

  • Will at least one match during the mens tournament finish scoreless in regular time, meaning a match finished 0-0 after 60 minutes of regular time ?
  • Will the mens or womens Gold medal match had to be decided in Overtime or after penalty shoot-outs session, meaning the final game will still be tied after 60 minutes of regular time ?
  • Will be one of the referees be injured during a game, meaning he will not be able to continue in the match ?
  • Will Sweden finish ahead of Finland in the mens tournament final ranking ?
  • Will Canada face USA in the Knock-out phase of the mens tournament ?
  • Will the Czech Republic face Slovakia in the knock-out phase of the mens tournament ?
  • Will at least 2 same countries won medals in both mens and womens tournament ?
  • Will Russia finish the mens tournament group stage unbeaten ?
  • Will at least one team score two shorthanded goals in one mens or womens tournament match ?
  • Will Slovenia finish ahead of Norway in the mens tournament final standing ?
  • Will a match in the mes tournament finish by at least 50 minutes cumulative penalties, (counting also the misconduct penalties and match penalties) ?
  • Will at least one player be able to score at least 1 point (goal or goal assist) in every his teams match ?
  • Will at least one goal in the knock-out round of mens or womens tournament be scored by a player just returning from the penalty box back on the ice ?
  • Will at least one quarterfinal of the mens tournament finish by a win of a team qualified from the Round of 16 ?
  • Will we have a 100% European semifinals in the mens tournament ?
  • Will South Korea win in Regular Time at least one match during the mens or womens tournament ?

 

 

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1 hour ago, dcro said:

Biathlon

Lithuania's mixed relay team will not get lapped. (this one is a brain teaser even for @Werloc :d)

 

They will be fighting for their lives. The funding for biathlon was cut in half for the following year, they must make top 16 if they want a realistic chance of having training camps next year.

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Biathlon:

1. Will Anastasiya Kuzmina win the third Olympic Olympic sprint title in a row?

2. Will Kaisa Makarainen win a gold medal in the Olympics?

3. Will Makarainen and Laukkanen pass the mixed relay to the men in 1st place?

4. Will the Austrian men relay repeat the success of 2010 and 2014 Olympics of being on the podium again?

5. WIll Norway win the men's relay?

6. Will Germany win the women's relay?

7. Will a biathlete from North America (Canada/USA) win an individual medal (sprint/pursuit/individual) in Olympics?

8. Is the winner of women's individual going to shoot 0+0+0+0?

9. Will Domracheva win a gold medal in the Olympics?

10. Is Johannes Boe going to win more medals than Martin Fourcade at the Olympics?

11. Will anyone from the Russian women team be able to win a medal in the Olympics?

12. Is Laura Dahlmeier going to be the only female German to win a medal (relays non included) at the Olympics?

13. Will Tarjei Boe beat Johannes Boe in the men's sprint.

14. Martin Fourcade won the Olympic title in the pursuit, he also won 2/3 pursuits in the last three World Championships. Is Martin going to win the Olympic gold in the pursuit?

 

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6 hours ago, stefanbg said:

 

Biathlon:

Martin Fourcade to win 3 or more gold medals in men's biathlon

A Russian born athlete to win gold in biathlon

Both JT Boe and Martin Fourcade on the podium in both the sprint and pursuit competitions in biathlon

There will be more than 10 biathletes with clean shooting in the men's 20km individual

 

Alpine skiing:

Naoki Yuasa of Japan to complete the man's slalom course in both legs

Hirscher to finish ahead of Kristoffersen in men's slalom

 

Luge

Clean medal sweep for Germany in women's luge

 

Cross country skiing:

Ustyugov to win gold in both freestyle and classic

 

Speed skating:

Clean medal sweep for the Netherlands in any speed skating discipline

 

Ski jumping:

Kamil Stoch to win all three gold medals in ski jumping

A Kazakh athlete not to place last in the men's large hill qualification

 

Figure skating:

A figure skater to land a quadruple jump in a combination with two triples without falling

 

USA men's ice hockey team to not make it past the groups

Edited 3 hours ago by stefanbg
Split by sport

 

 

One more in biathlon:

Will Nadezhda Skardino make a miss in any biathlon event at the Olympics?

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2 hours ago, hckosice said:

Ice Hockey

  • Will at least one match during the mens tournament finish scoreless in regular time, meaning a match finished 0-0 after 60 minutes of regular time ?
  • Will the mens or womens Gold medal match had to be decided in Overtime or after penalty shoot-outs session, meaning the final game will still be tied after 60 minutes of regular time ?
  • Will be one of the referees be injured during a game, meaning he will not be able to continue in the match ?
  • Will Sweden finish ahead of Finland in the mens tournament final ranking ?
  • Will Canada face USA in the Knock-out phase of the mens tournament ?
  • Will the Czech Republic face Slovakia in the knock-out phase of the mens tournament ?
  • Will at least 2 same countries won medals in both mens and womens tournament ?
  • Will Russia finish the mens tournament group stage unbeaten ?
  • Will at least one team score two shorthanded goals in one mens or womens tournament match ?
  • Will Slovenia finish ahead of Norway in the mens tournament final standing ?
  • Will a match in the mes tournament finish by at least 50 minutes cumulative penalties, (counting also the misconduct penalties and match penalties) ?
  • Will at least one player be able to score at least 1 point (goal or goal assist) in every his teams match ?
  • Will at least one goal in the knock-out round of mens or womens tournament be scored by a player just returning from the penalty box back on the ice ?
  • Will at least one quarterfinal of the mens tournament finish by a win of a team qualified from the Round of 16 ?
  • Will we have a 100% European semifinals in the mens tournament ?
  • Will South Korea win in Regular Time at least one match during the mens or womens tournament ?

 

 

 men only or also the girls counting?

 

another couple of question for Ice Hockey...

 

will the men's tournament Gold Medal winners win all their single games from 1st to the final in the 60-min regulation time?

will the men's tournament top scorer (goals + assists) come from a team not being one of the so-called "big six" (CAN, USA, SWE, FIN, RUS, CZE)?

will the women's tournament Gold Medal game be played by at least 1 European team?

will Korea's teams (both men and women, it doesn't make any difference) lose at least 1 game by 10 or more goals deficit?

 

Snowboarding...

 

will both Snowboardcross events (m+f) be won by European athletes?

will at least 1 freestyler (meaning Halfpipe and/or Slopestyle specialist, both genders included) who won Gold in Sochi 2014 repeat him/herself in Pyeongchang?

will Shaun White win another (undeserved) Gold Medal in the men's Halfpipe?

 

Overall

 

will Italy win exactly 2 Gold Medals?

will we see at least 1 new Country (for the Winter Olympics only, of course) among the Gold Medal winners?

will there be at least 5 athletes (all sports, all genders, relays and team events included) winning 3 or more Gold Medals?

will Kim Un Jong and/or Donald Trump show up at the Opening Ceremony? :yikes::lol::rofl:

Edited by phelps
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Here are my suggestions, maybe some of them will be interesting enough to be selected:

Alpine skiing:
- Michaela Shiffrin will win at least 2 golds
- Marcel Hirscher will win more medals (golds) than Michaela Shiffrin
- Norway will win the most medals on the mens side
- No nation will win golds on both sides
- Italy will win more medals than france
Luge:
- Germany will sweep at least one event
- Germany wont win all 4 golds
- All 2014 olympic champions will defend their title
- In at least one event the eventual winner wont be first after the first run
Skeleton:
- At least one nation will win a medal on both sides
- South Korea will win its first ever gold in skeleton
- The combined winning margin on both sides will be more than 1 second
Bob:
- Germany will win all golds
- Germany will win at least 5 medals
Cross country:
- Switzerland will win more golds than russia
- Norway will sweep all relays
- There will be a crash in the team sprint final
- Norway wont win both individual sprints
- Norway will lead after all exchanges in both relays
- No nation (except Norway) will win more golds than Marit Björgen
- 6 or less nations will win medals
Speed skating:
- Japan will be more successful than the Netherlands on the womens side
- The Netherlands will fail to medal in at least 4 events
- Miho Takagi will be the most successful athlete
- The Netherlands wont win a gold in team pursuit
- The Netherlands wont win a gold at distance of 3000 m or longer
- USA will win 2 medals or less
- Canada will be more successful than the US
- Austria or Finland will win a medal
Short track:
- Hungary will win at least 1 gold
- Both Hungary and Italy will win at least 1 medal
- Russia will fail to medal
- Canada will be the second best nation
- One athlete will win at least 2 individual golds

- Two different hungarian athletes will win individual medals
Snowboard:
- Japan will be more successful in snowboard big air/halfpipe/slopestyle than the US
- Norway will win at least 1 gold
- The czech republic will win at least 1 gold
- Germany will be more successful than France
- Austria will win more golds than Norway
- Russia will fail to medal
- One athlete will win at least 2 golds
Freestyle skiing:
- One nation will have at least one athlete in both ski cross finals
- Sweden will have two athletes in womens ski cross final
- Sandra Naeslund will fail to medal
- France will win at least 1 gold
Ski jumping:
- At least 2 nations will win medals on both sides
- One athlete will win at least 2 golds
- Austria will fail to medal on the mens side
- Poland will win at least 1 gold
- At least 2 athletes will medal in both individual events on the mens side
- Slovenia will fail to medal
Nordic combined:
- Norway will win more golds than Germany
- Only 2 nations will win individual medals
- One nation will sweep at least one event
- Eric Frenzel will fail to win an individual medal
Figure skating:
- Germany will win more golds than the US
- No nation will win 2 or more golds
- No nation will win individual medals on both sides
- All gold medals will be won by european nations
- The US will fail to medal
- No nation will win more than 3 medals
Biathlon:
- Johannes Böe will win more golds than Martin Fourcade
- One nation will win at least 2 relay golds
- Germany will fail to win an individual gold
- No more than 4 nations will win individual golds
- Anastasija Kuzmina will win at least 2 golds
- The Czech Republic will fail to medal
- Ukraine will win more medals than Italy
Curling:
- Canada will win mens and womens gold
- Only Canada will win medals on both sides
- Canada wont lose a single match
- Neither Norway nor GB will win a medal
Ice hockey:
- Russia wont win mens gold
- Either Sweden or Finland will win mens gold
- Both Sweden and Finland will win a medal on the mens side
- At least 2 nations will win medals on both sides

 

Edit: More general questions:

- The most successful athlete will be a biathlete

- The most successful athlete wont be european

- More women than men will win at least 2 golds

- No nation will have two athletes with at least 2 individual golds

- At least 3 athletes will win their countries only medal

- At least 3 nations will win at least 10 golds each

- At least 2 countries will win more than 30 medals

- Germany will win the medal table

- Neither Canada nor Germany will win the medal table

- Austria will finish ahead of Switzerland in the medal table

- Japan will finish top 5 in the medal table

- France will finish ahead of the Netherlands in the medal table

- No more than 10 2010 olympic champions will again win a gold medal

- At least 3 medallists from 2006 will again win a medal

Edited by OlympicsFan

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Fantastic job guys, we may be able to open the contest sooner than expected. Keep them coming anyway, the more and more creative, the better.

 

 

The only problem is that I have 100 suggestions for Ice Hockey and I think I can only pick 3 at most :lol:

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17 hours ago, LDOG said:

Fantastic job guys, we may be able to open the contest sooner than expected. Keep them coming anyway, the more and more creative, the better.

 

 

The only problem is that I have 100 suggestions for Ice Hockey and I think I can only pick 3 at most :lol:

 

naaa...I think you should put a bit more than just 3 questions about Ice Hockey in the contest...

if a sport has more followers in such a big way, it can't be ignored and put on the same level of the others...I mean, not that there should be 10 times Hockey questions more than the other sports, but even if there are some more it's still OK, imho...

 

p.s. however in the next hours I'm sure you'll get some more inputs also for the other disciplines...;)

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