A good chance for a medal in Paris in a sport or an event that your NOC had no olympic medal before.

[rafalgorka 1,517]

Ha! Tricky question 

Edited November 18, 2023 by rafalgorka

[rafalgorka 1,517]

A second version of this question - a chance for gold where you had No gold before

[Nickyc707 382]

For  perhaps Toby Roberts in sport climbing. He's currently no.2 in the boulder and lead world rankings and gained a quota at the recent European qualifier by a comfortable margin. He's still only eighteen and improving rapidlly.

 

It's a bit of a cop out given it's only the sport's second appearance at the OG. Anyway it definitely won't be in artistic swimming, basketball, breaking, rhythmic gymnastics, handball, surfing, table tennis or volleyball which are the other sports in which they've never won a medal.

[Josh 10,493]

For  the most likely sports would have to be breaking and 3x3 basketball.

 

Philip Kim (I refuse to call him Phil Wizard) has won three consecutive World Championships medals (silver in 2021, gold in 2022, silver in 2023) and is the current Pan American Games and Pan American Championships gold medalist. 

Our 3x3 basketball team of Michelle Plouffe, Katherine Plouffe, Kacie Bosch, and Paige Crozon has been on a tear the past few seasons. Winning stop after stop on the Women’s Series. Disappointing quarterfinal exit for them at this years FIBA 3X3 World Cup, but we had a tough draw facing France, it could’ve gone either way. 30/34 wins this season for the foursome, 30/33 wins last season (excluding the meaningless 3x3 canada quest tournament and the big 12 tournaments)
 

If Erin Brooks can get her Canadian citizenship in time to qualify for the Olympics, she could be a medal threat in women’s surfing as well. Silver medalist at the 2023 ISA Worlds, U16 gold medalists at the 2022 ISA Junior Worlds, and widely regarded as the next big surfing star. 

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Spelling correction.

[Josh 10,493]

17 hours ago, rafalgorka said:

A second version of this question - a chance for gold where you had No gold before

Did some research, hadn’t realized that Canada still hasn’t won an Olympic gold in judo. Christa Deguchi and Jessica Klimkait are very easily the top two judoka in the women’s 57kg weightclass.  Klimkait won bronze at Tokyo 2020, but a super disappointing one at that. She was ranked #2 in the world at the time (Deguchi was #1, but of course due to the stupid one athlete per NOC rule she wasn’t competing) and being the reigning World Champion she was coming in as the favourite. 

Edited November 19, 2023 by Josh
Grammar again.

[OlympicIRL 5,532]

Our best chance for a medal in a sport we didn’t win a medal in before is Rhys McClenaghan in artistic gymnastics. He’s one of the favourites in the men’s pommel.

 

Golf is also worth a bet as we have chances in both men’s and women’s events.

 

Small chances for a first medal in road cycling and taekwondo though I wouldn’t be putting my hopes on them either. 

[Giovanni Gianni Cattaneo 142]

For Italy no doubt:indoor volleyball, even men or women. 

That's incredibile! One of the best nations in this sport, with 5 world champions wins, Never get a gold. This would be good time

Edited November 18, 2023 by Giovanni Gianni Cattaneo

[phelps 7,670]

for  it could only be Sport Climbing (Matteo Zurloni, reigning Speed world champion) or Golf (very unlikely, but Le Golf National is the course where all the Italians have their best performances on the tour...Migliozzi did even won that tournament last year -or 2 years ago? )

 

I refuse to take into consideration Breakdance (even if there's a small chance in the women's event)

[phelps 7,670]

5 minutes ago, Giovanni Gianni Cattaneo said:

For Italy no doubt:indoor volleyball, even men or women. 

That's incredibile! One of the best nations in this sport, with 5 world champions wins, Never get a gold. This would be good time

yeah, for the 1st gold in a sport where we already won some medals, Volleyball (and Beach Volleyball) are the most likely to happen, sooner or later

 

maybe even Rhythmic Gymnastics

[Prakash_k 68]

9 hours ago, rafalgorka said:

A second version of this question - a chance for gold where you had No gold before

Boxing .

Nikhat is current world champion in 50 kg .