Your safest Gold Medal Picks for Summer Olympic Games Paris 2024

[Triplecast 156]

Artistic Swimming Team  

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[Triplecast 156]

W 200 FS Someone from     Titmus 400 FS.

Edited July 2 by Triplecast

[RussB 189]

39 minutes ago, Belle said:

From  PoV Duplantis is the as a close bet as possible. 

I’m not sure I’d have pole vault for a safest bet regardless of how amazing Mondo is. There are too many variables with PV that can lead to strange results.

 

 

[Josh 10,489]

26 minutes ago, Triplecast said:

W 200 FS Someone from     Titmus 400 FS.

McIntosh could beat Titmus for gold. 

[RussB 189]

3 minutes ago, Josh said:

McIntosh could beat Titmus for gold. 

Is she definitely swimming it? Aware her schedule is going to be pretty heavy with freestyle, 400IM and relay duties.

Edited July 2 by RussB

[Josh 10,489]

1 minute ago, RussB said:

Is she definitely swimming it? Aware her schedule is going to be pretty heavy with freestyle, 400IM and relay duties.

It’s her best medal chance on the first day, and she’ll be fresh so I don’t see why not. If she can pace her race well she might be able to push Titmus, otherwise she could finish anywhere from silver to 4th. Given her rigorous schedule it’s unlikely we see her do the double with the 4x100m freestyle relay. MSH, Oleksiak, MacNeil, and Ruck will make up the finals lineup probably. 

[LuizGuilherme 267]

From  no one.

 

The closer we have IMO is Gabriel Medina in surfing, but he is not THAT favourite, others can win.

[RussB 189]

From 🇬🇧 perspective it has to be the women’s lightweight double in the rowing. They have not been challenged let alone beaten in the past 2 years. It’s as safe a bet as there is at this point.

[mpjmcevoy 362]

34 minutes ago, RussB said:

From 🇬🇧 perspective it has to be the women’s lightweight double in the rowing. They have not been challenged let alone beaten in the past 2 years. It’s as safe a bet as there is at this point.

Tradition. I remember a wonderful point where the best men's pair in the world was Steve Redgrave and whoever he chose that afternoon to row with, while the second best boat was Matt Pinsentt and whoever he chose the same afternoon to row with - the famous "let's crush some dreams" period - one of the oddest things about the Atlanta debacle wa how absolutely certain it was that those lads would do the business. At their best Glover and Stanning came close to that level of sheer brutal mental dominance.

[NearPup 3,044]

I'd say the closest thing to a gold medal lock Canada has is McIntosh in the 400m IM, but I hesitate to call McIntosh a shoe-in in any race.