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


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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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Here are my picks in no particular order:

 

1. Nathan Chen :wUSA: figure skating/men's singles

 

2. Kamila Valieva :wRUS: figure skating/women's singles

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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Sandra Naeslund :SWE W Ski Cross

Kamila Valieva :ROC W Figure Skating

Ailing Eillen Gu :CHN W Freestyle Skiing Halfpipe

Norway :NOR M Biathlon Relay

Sara Hector :SWE W Giant Slalom

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Irene Schouten (Speed skating, W 3000m) :NED

Ester Ledecká (Snowboarding, W Parallel giant slalom) :CZE

Petra Vlhová (Alpine skiing, W slalom) :SVK

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

Norway team (Cross-country skiing, M relay) :NOR

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

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Kamila Valieva :ROC W Figure Skating

Ailing Eillen Gu :CHN W Freestyle Skiing Halfpipe

Nils van der Poel :SWE M 10k speed skating

ROC :ROC Team Figure Skating

Chloe Kim :USA  W Snowboarding Halfpipe

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:CAN Mikael Kingsbury - moguls

:GER Francesco Friedrich - two man bob

:NOR Men's cross country 4x10 km Relay

:SWE Women's cross country Team Sprint

:CZE Ester Ledecka - snowboard PGS

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:SWE Nils van der Poel  - Speed Skating (10km)

 

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

 

:ROC ROC - Figure Skating (Team Event)

 

:NOR Norway - Cross Country Skiing (Men's 4x10km Relay)

 

:NOR Jarl Magnus Riiber - Nordic Combined (Men's Individual Large Hill)

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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

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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.:d

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

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