Summer Olympic Games 2020 Biggest Gold Medal Favourites

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Athletics - Women

 

100 - Marie-Josee Ta Lou CIV

200 - Sherika Jackson JAM

400 - Shaunae Miller-Uibo BAH

800 - Ajee Wilson USA

1500 - Genzebe Dibaba ETH

5000 - somebody from KEN

10000 - somebody from KEN

marathon - somebody from KEN

3000 sc - Beatrice Chipkoech KEN

100 hurdles - Kendra Harrison USA

400 hurdles - Sydney McLaughlin USA

high jump - Mariya Lasitskene RUS

pole vault - Sandi Morris USA

long jump - Ivana Spanovic SRB

triple jump - Caterine Ibarguen COL

shot put - Lijiao Gong CHN

discus throw - Sandra Perkovic CRO

hammer throw - Anita Włodarczyk POL

javelin throw - Huihui Lyu CHN

heptathlon - Nafissatou Thiam BEL

race walk 20 km - somebody from CHN

4x100 - USA

4x400 - USA

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In women's athletics I think Lasitskene and Thiam are the biggest favourites for gold

Edited July 29, 2018 by rafalgorka

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Heptathlon is always dangerous, because there are several chances that something goes wrong. You could have three fouls in Long Jump or fall over the hurdles, for example. Of course Decathlon is even more unpredictable. 

Edited July 29, 2018 by EselTheDonkey

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Swimming - Men

 

50 free - Benjamin Proud GBR

100 free - Vladimir Morozov RUS

200 free - Kyle Chalmers AUS

400 free - Mack Horton AUS

800 free - Gregorio Paltrinieri ITA

1500 free - Gregorio Paltrinieri ITA

100 back - Jiayu Xu CHN

200 back - Evgeny Rylov RUS

100 breast - Adam Peaty GBR

200 breast - Ippei Watanabe JPN

100 but - Caeleb Dressel USA

200 but - Chad le Clos RSA

200 med - Chase Kalisz USA

400 med - Chase Kalisz USA

4x100 free - USA

4x200 free - USA
4x100 med - USA

Edited July 29, 2018 by rafalgorka

[OlympicsFan 858]

vor 5 Stunden schrieb rafalgorka:

Athletics - Women

 

100 - Marie-Josee Ta Lou CIV

200 - Sherika Jackson JAM

400 - Shaunae Miller-Uibo BAH

800 - Ajee Wilson USA

1500 - Genzebe Dibaba ETH

5000 - somebody from KEN

10000 - somebody from KEN

marathon - somebody from KEN

3000 sc - Beatrice Chipkoech KEN

100 hurdles - Kendra Harrison USA

400 hurdles - Sydney McLaughlin USA

high jump - Mariya Lasitskene RUS

pole vault - Sandi Morris USA

long jump - Ivana Spanovic SRB

triple jump - Caterine Ibarguen COL

shot put - Lijiao Gong CHN

discus throw - Sandra Perkovic CRO

hammer throw - Anita Włodarczyk POL

javelin throw - Huihui Lyu CHN

heptathlon - Nafissatou Thiam BEL

race walk 20 km - somebody from CHN

4x100 - USA

4x400 - USA

For me the only really big favorites among those are:

Lasitskene, Perkovic, Woldarczyk, Thiam and maybe Chepkoech. I dont think you can just name "someone from Kenya" as favorite, you have to name a certain athlete and personally i wouldnt name relays or teams, but if i would, the american 4 x 400 relays would certainly be among the biggest favorites.

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vor 9 Stunden schrieb rafalgorka:

Athletics Men

 

100 - Noah Lyles USA

200 - Noah Lyles USA

400 - Wayde van Niekerk RSA

800 - ADAM KSZCZOT POL !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :-) why not have a dream? my favourite Polish athlete (from those who are competing right now), BTW

1500 - somebody from KEN

5000 - somebody from ETH

10000 - somebody from ETH

marathon - somebody from ETH

3000 SC - somebody from KEN

110 hurdles - Sergey Shubenkov RUSSIA, not some without country individual but RUSSIA

400 hurdles - Abderrahman Samba QAT - 0.01 sec before Rai Benjamin ANT both with under the Kevin Young WR - the race of the games

High Jump - Mutaz Essa Barshim QAT - why not have a dream hahaha? my favourite athlete (from those who are competing right now) from all over the world BTW

Pole Vault - Sam Kendricks USA

Long Jump - Luvo Manyonga RSA

Triple Jump - Pedro Pablo Pichardo POR - anyone knows if there is a chance he will be allowed to compete for Portugal?

Shot Put - Tom Walsh NZL

Discus Throw - Andrius Gudzius LTU

Hammer Throw - Wojciech Nowicki POL

Javelin Throw - Johannes Vetter GER

Decathlon - Damian Warner  CAN

Race Walk 20km - somebody from JPN

Race Walk 50km - Matej Toth SVK

4x100 - USA

4x400 - USA

 

I would only consider Lyles (200 m), Van Niekerk, Barshim, Samba and maybe Toth/Shubenkov big favorites. I am a bit surprised about your picks in mens 100 m (What has Lyles shown to justify being called the top favorite there?), mens 800 m, mens pole vault (what about Lavillenie and Duplantis?), mens long jump (what about Echevarria?), mens triple jump (what about Taylor?), mens shot put (what about the american guys?), mens discus throw (what about Harting, Stahl and Dacres?), mens javelin throw (what about Röhler and Hofmann?), decathlon (what about Mayer?) and hammer throw (a lot of new talents from Hungary/Ukraine + Fajdek + Pronkin).

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vor einer Stunde schrieb rafalgorka:

Swimming - Men

 

50 free - Benjamin Proud GBR

100 free - Vladimir Morozov RUS

200 free - Kyle Chalmers AUS

400 free - Mack Horton AUS

800 free - Gregorio Paltrinieri ITA

1500 free - Gregorio Paltrinieri ITA

100 back - Jiayu Xu CHN

200 back - Evgeny Rylov RUS

100 breast - Adam Peaty GBR

200 breast - Ippei Watanabe JPN

100 but - Caeleb Dressel USA

200 but - Chad le Clos RSA

200 med - Chase Kalisz USA

400 med - Chase Kalisz USA

4x100 free - USA

4x200 free - USA
4x100 med - USA

I would only consider Horton, Paltrinieri (1500 free), Peaty and Kalisz (400 IM, maybe also 200 IM) clear favorites, but i would add Milak (200 fly).

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Simone Biles in women's artistic gymnastics. She will win everything but Uneven Bars (and she has shown such a big improvement on this apparatus that I will not be entirely surprised if she walks away with a gold medal on the UB as well).

Kohei Uchimura has not fully recovered yet, but I think he will be ready for the 2020 Olympics because, well, it's in Japan. It's impossible to say if he will even be among the favorites for the gold medal -- he had a terrible day of competition at the World Cup this year and he was so close to being beaten in the last few years that I think it will be too late for him to try to win gold in 2020. But we will see.

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On 2018-07-29 at 12:34, rafalgorka said:

Athletics Men

 

100 - Noah Lyles USA

200 - Noah Lyles USA

400 - Wayde van Niekerk RSA

800 - ADAM KSZCZOT POL !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :-) why not have a dream? my favourite Polish athlete (from those who are competing right now), BTW

1500 - somebody from KEN

5000 - somebody from ETH

10000 - somebody from ETH

marathon - somebody from ETH

3000 SC - somebody from KEN

110 hurdles - Sergey Shubenkov RUSSIA, not some without country individual but RUSSIA

400 hurdles - Abderrahman Samba QAT - 0.01 sec before Rai Benjamin ANT both with under the Kevin Young WR - the race of the games

High Jump - Mutaz Essa Barshim QAT - why not have a dream hahaha? my favourite athlete (from those who are competing right now) from all over the world BTW

Pole Vault - Sam Kendricks USA

Long Jump - Luvo Manyonga RSA

Triple Jump - Pedro Pablo Pichardo POR - anyone knows if there is a chance he will be allowed to compete for Portugal?

Shot Put - Tom Walsh NZL

Discus Throw - Andrius Gudzius LTU

Hammer Throw - Wojciech Nowicki POL

Javelin Throw - Johannes Vetter GER

Decathlon - Damian Warner  CAN

Race Walk 20km - somebody from JPN

Race Walk 50km - Matej Toth SVK

4x100 - USA

4x400 - USA

 

This would be my predictions

100-Christian Coleman 9.75 ish Baker and Prescod Bronze and Silver

200- Noah Lyles ca 19.40

400 Wayde Sub 43 WR Silver Michael Norman ca 43.20 Bronze Fred Kerley ca 43.60

800 Korir ca 1.40 WR Silver Nigel Amos 1.41   Bronze we can say Kszczot lol

Don't know about alot of long distance

110 h Shubenkov 13.03 Mcleod 13.07 Levy 13.11 Close Race

400 h WR Samba 46.5 ish Silver and Bronze Mcmaster and Benjamin sub 47 (i know it's alot of Middle distance World Records)

High Jump Barshim 2.42 Lysenko 2.38 Drouin 2.35 (comeback)

Long Jump Echevarria ca 8.70 Silver Manyonga ca 8.65 Bronze J.Henderson ca 8.50

Pole Vault Kendricks  5.88 Duplantis and Lisek silver and bronze 5.83

Triple Jump Teddy Tamgho Gold? (My favourite athlete of all time) nah jk Gold Pichardo 18.01 Silver Taylor 17.89 Bronze Claye 17.75 (i think pichardo is eligable as soon as this european championship)

Shot Put Gold Crouser Silver Walsh Bronze D.Hill 

Discus Gold Ståhl (cmon sweden) Silver Dacres Bronze Gudzius

Hammer Nowicki Gold

Javelin Julius Yego back to form?? Probably a german triple Vetter, Röhler and Hoffman

Dechatlon I like Warner but i reckon Mayer might be tough to beat

Race Walking aint my thing but the Toth dude wins alot so..

4*100 USA sub 47 Coleman,Lyles,Baker and Gatlin/Rodgers/Jaylen Bacon?? would be lethal

4*400 USA almost a world record with Michael Norman, Kerley, Dedewo and Gil Roberts

 

 

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On 2018-07-29 at 22:15, OlympicsFan said:

For me the only really big favorites among those are:

Lasitskene, Perkovic, Woldarczyk, Thiam and maybe Chepkoech. I dont think you can just name "someone from Kenya" as favorite, you have to name a certain athlete and personally i wouldnt name relays or teams, but if i would, the american 4 x 400 relays would certainly be among the biggest favorites.

Miller Uibo,Gao and Mclaughlin are pretty big favorites too. Obviously Schwanitz is a challenge but Gao can react lenghts no one else can at the moment. Mclaughlin is just so good i can't see her losing and Miller Uibo is on another level from the other 400 m women. Salwa Eid Nasser would be up there tho.