stefanbg 155 Posted July 20, 2021 #81 Share Posted July 20, 2021 For Bulgaria Realistic: 2 Optimistic: 4 Pessimistic: 0 Biggest chance of a medal comes from women's wrestling. We also have slight chances in boxing, rhythmic gymnastic, pistol shooting, judo, weightlifting and karate. Overall, this is one of the weakest and smallest teams we have sent to the Olympics for ages. Makedonas 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thiago_simoes 1,359 Posted July 20, 2021 #82 Share Posted July 20, 2021 Now that we have the final number of qualifiers for each nation, I'll update my predictions. "Safe" medals Artistic gymnastics: 1 medal Athletics: 1 medal Boxing: 1 medal Judo: 1 medal Sailing: 1 medal Skateboarding: 3 medals Sprint canoeing: 2 medals Surfing: 2 medals Volleyball and Beach volleyball: 2 medals Likely, but definitely not easy: Football: 1 medal Taekwondo: 1 medal Swimming and Open water swimming: 2 medals Unlikely, but feasible medals Cycling: 1 medal Fencing: 1 medal Slalom canoeing: 1 medal Tennis: 1 medal Nearly impossible medals Archery: 1 medal Table tennis: 1 medal Wrestling: 1 medal I'd say 15 medals is a realistic expectation. Some sports in the "safe medal" tier can earn more medals, like artistic gymnastics and judo, and even football can give us 2 medals, so 15 is a somewhat conservative but realistic number. Our unofficial goal is reaching 20 medals, but for this to happen we'll need excellent performances in judo, artistic gymnastics and volleyball, and we'll need at least 2 medals in athletics and swimming. It's within reach, but I honestly don't expect this to happen anymore. LuizGuilherme 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sanjaydas 9 Posted July 20, 2021 #83 Share Posted July 20, 2021 Gold: Elavenil Valarivan Silver: Amit Panghal Elavenil Valarivan and Divyansh Panwar (10M Air Rifle) Vinesh Phogat Bajrang Abhishek Varma Archery XD Bronze: Deepika Vikas Mary Lovlina Men Hockey Saurabh Chaudhury Manu Bhaker and Saurabh Chaudhary (10M Air Pistol) Ravi Dahiya Deepak Kumar Manu Bhaker Dark horse: Mirabai PV Sindhu Anshu Kamalpreet Kaur Neeraj Chopra Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dodge 711 Posted July 20, 2021 #84 Share Posted July 20, 2021 The headline gracenote figures are out. Don’t think they can be drilled down unless you’re a subscriber. https://www.gracenote.com/virtual-medal-table/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orangehair43 177 Posted July 20, 2021 #85 Share Posted July 20, 2021 38 minutes ago, dodge said: The headline gracenote figures are out. Don’t think they can be drilled down unless you’re a subscriber. https://www.gracenote.com/virtual-medal-table/ The Press have access so some countries might report the figures. The BBC have a round up for the Uk and some international stars. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/olympics/57888185 And here are some other roundups. https://www.foxsports.com.au/tokyo-olympics-2021/olympic-games-tokyo-2021-live-latest-updates-covid-when-does-it-start-schedule-times-australia-aest-simone-biles-zach-lavine/news-story/7b0e4e3242a4b5650da3cf63251c4411?recommendedCount=0 https://uk.sports.yahoo.com/news/olympics-japan-projected-improve-medals- 082636257.html https://www.eurosport.com/olympics/tokyo-2020/2020/tokyo-2020-team-gb-predicted-to-win-14-gold-medals-including-max-whitlock-adam-peaty-jade-jones_sto8426397/story.shtml https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/olympics/125806764/tokyo-olympics-eight-golds-predicted-for-new-zealand-matching-their-record-haul-37-years-on Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dragon 1,707 Posted July 20, 2021 #86 Share Posted July 20, 2021 2 minutes ago, Orangehair43 said: The Press have access so some countries might report the figures. The BBC have a round up for the Uk and some international stars. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/olympics/57888185 That's a strange mixture for GB of very optimistic in some sports, wildly pessimistic in others. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hckošice 13,283 Posted July 20, 2021 #87 Share Posted July 20, 2021 33 minutes ago, Dragon said: That's a strange mixture for GB of very optimistic in some sports, wildly pessimistic in others. Pessimism is just a well informed optimism Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IoNuTzZ 292 Posted July 20, 2021 #88 Share Posted July 20, 2021 For Romania Realistic: 4-6 Optimistic: 8-10 Pessimistic: 2-3 “Safe” medals Rowing: W2x, W8, Likely medals Swimming: David Popovici (100 or 200 fly) Wrestling: Alina Vuc Rowing: M4-, W2-, LW2X Unlikely Shooting: Laura Coman Artistic gymnastics: Larisa Iordache(beam) Swimming: Robert Glinta (100 backstroke) Wrestling: Albert Saritov Table tennis: Women’s team, Mixed doubles Athletics: Alin Firfirica Nearly impossible Artistic gymnastics: Larisa Iordache(all around), Marian Dragulescu(vault) Fencing: Ana Maria Popescu Canoeing: C2 1000m Tennis: Niculescu/Olaru Cycling: Vlad Dascalu Athletics: Florentina Iusco, Alina Rotaru Wrestling: Alin Alexuc-Ciurariu thiago_simoes 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Makedonas 1,615 Posted July 20, 2021 #89 Share Posted July 20, 2021 23 minutes ago, IoNuTzZ said: “Safe” medals Rowing: 3 medals(W2x, W8, W2-) I wouldn't say W2- is "safe" Second at this year's European Championships (behind Great Britain and barely ahead of Spain and Greece), third at the World Cup event (behind Spain and Ireland) and that's not including the top 4 from the 2019 World Championships (NZ, Australia, Canada, USA) who didn't compete at those events this year. Also not including the newly formed Danish team which features two former Olympic medalists (one from London and one from Rio). I still think W2- for Romania can win a medal but at most it should be in the "likely" category, definitely not "safe" However I'm surprised you didn't include LW2X at all, that's another chance for Romanian rowing in my opinion. IoNuTzZ 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcmdtruefan 35 Posted July 21, 2021 #90 Share Posted July 21, 2021 For the United States , I believe team USA will be the only country to have more than 100 total medals, probably around the range 100-110, while winning 40-50 gold medals, securing the top sport of both the gold medal and overall medal tally counts. While the US may have some decline in their dominance in Swimming, the new sport events, including skateboarding and surfing will help out team USA maintain similar medal count figures to that of the past 20 years. For Thailand , I expect them to win about 1-2 total medals with probably 1 gold medal from Panipak Wongpattanakit in 49 kg in women's taekwondo. Prior to last week, I thought their was a chance that Thailand could win up to 3-4 total medals, but due to the withdrawal of Thitisan Panmot in men's boxing, 52 kg, that injury had a big hit on Thailand's medal chances. Badminton, women's golf, women's boxing and shooting could contend for medals, but need to overcome their psychological meltdowns to win a medal. While pro Thai fans would argue that the ban of its weightlifting team is the main cause of its potential lack of substantial success in this year's Olympics (It's nobody's else fault that they get caught doping), in my opinion, it is the lack of improvement in Olympic Sports as well as the decline of its economy along with its sociopolitical issues (These issues affect a country's performance because most countries are funded by the state government) are the main causes of its imminent failure. Since the start of the 2020 +1 cycle, Thailand has done poorly in Olympic sports competitions in the Southeast Asian (SEA) Games and Asian Games. In the 2017 and 2019 SEA Games, Thailand has finished third on medal counts for Olympic events, often lagging its main competitor, Vietnam, in key sports such as Swimming, Athletics and Gymnastics. In the 2018 Asian Games, Thailand finished 11th in the medal count, marking its first time that it fell of the top 10 since 1994. A bad performance in this year's Olympic would sum up the downward trajectory of the country's sports program. It is likely that Thailand would officially lose its no. 1 spot among Southeast Asian countries at the Olympics and considering the training/preparation difficulties during the pandemic, I would not be surprised if Thailand would not win any medal at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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