Your 5 "safest" Gold Medal picks for the Winter Olympic Games Beijing 2022

[Quasit 865]

You can pick 5 athletes/teams across all sports.

 

Choose teams/athletes you think are the surest to win a gold medal by your knowledge.

 

Let's compare how many you got right at the end of the Olympic Games.

 

 

Please limit your picks to five so I can count them in!

 

 

Event 1 - Sport - Athlete/Team

Event 2 - Sport - Athlete/Team

Event 3 - Sport - Athlete/Team

Event 4 - Sport - Athlete/Team

Event 5 - Sport - Athlete/Team

 

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[Ted 143]

Here are my picks in no particular order:

 

1. Nathan Chen  figure skating/men's singles

 

2. Kamila Valieva  figure skating/women's singles

 

3. Nils van der Poel  speed skating (10k)

 

4. Sweden  XC skiing/women's team sprint C

 

5. Francesco Friedrich  bobsleigh/men's two-man

 

[hckošice 14,863]

Sandra Naeslund W Ski Cross

Kamila Valieva W Figure Skating

Ailing Eillen Gu W Freestyle Skiing Halfpipe

Norway M Biathlon Relay

Sara Hector W Giant Slalom

[Hipooo 639]

Irene Schouten (Speed skating, W 3000m)

Ester Ledecká (Snowboarding, W Parallel giant slalom)

Petra Vlhová (Alpine skiing, W slalom)

Nils van der Poel (Speed skating, M 10 000m)

Norway team (Cross-country skiing, M relay)

[hckošice 14,863]

oh man, I forgot, maybe even safest gold than Sara Hector is obviously Ester Ledecká Snowboarding W PGS

[Vic Liu 1,682]

Kamila Valieva  W Figure Skating

Ailing Eillen Gu  W Freestyle Skiing Halfpipe

Nils van der Poel  M 10k speed skating

ROC  Team Figure Skating

Chloe Kim   W Snowboarding Halfpipe

[Monzanator 4,516]

Mikael Kingsbury - moguls

Francesco Friedrich - two man bob

Men's cross country 4x10 km Relay

Women's cross country Team Sprint

Ester Ledecka - snowboard PGS

[Wumo 3,002]

Nils van der Poel  - Speed Skating (10km)

 

 Francesco Friedrich - Bobsleigh (Men's four-man)

 

 ROC - Figure Skating (Team Event)

 

 Norway - Cross Country Skiing (Men's 4x10km Relay)

 

 Jarl Magnus Riiber - Nordic Combined (Men's Individual Large Hill)

[Dunadan 1,103]

Niels van der Poel - speed skating, M 10k

 

Kamila Valieva - figure skating, W singles

 

ROC - figure skating, team

 

Johannes H. Klaebo- cross country, M sprint

 

Francesco Friedrich- bobsleigh, 4-man

[Quasit 865]

1 hour ago, Ted said:

* I hope Van der Poel's and Friedrich's double gold medal predictions don't count as two separate ones.

It does, so you may want to shrink it down to 5 events.