Your safest Gold Medal Picks for Summer Olympic Games Paris 2024

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women's table tennis team

men's table tennis team

women's basketball team

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[Book 70]

  On 7/2/2024 at 4:12 PM, rybak said:

I would say  Aleksandra Mirosław in speed in sport climbing, but one small mistake can ruin everything.

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I don’t think the format for speed climbing makes any athlete a lock. Any top 10 speed climber could win on the day.
 

Lead/Boulder however,  Janja Garnbret is as safe as you can get for a gold medal.

Edited July 2, 2024 by Book

[MatiReimundo 365]

  On 7/2/2024 at 4:17 PM, Josh said:

In tennis, nothing is a given, especially at the Olympics. Lots of upsets occur. 
 

She is the heavy favourite yeah, but I wouldn’t be surprised to see her not win gold (even with her three in a row at Roland Garros, the Olympic venue)

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Iga is unbeatable on clay, of course an upset can happen but with the difference of level between her and the other 63 the chances are basically 95/5

[CCB 565]

I totally forgot Adam Peaty ... thought his best time was still far behind Qin's, but 57.69 vs 57.94 is not the kind of difference I had in my mind.

 

Checking the 200 breaststroke times now. Even on that distance Qin Haiyang is no lock for gold anymore: Matt Fallon  has the best time 2.06,54, with Haiyang just in 2.07,03. 

[Belle 986]

  On 7/2/2024 at 4:06 PM, TeamGB said:

Sarah Sjoestrom  Women's 50m Freestyle 

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Is she that big of fave? 

[Jinzha 702]

Most of my picks have all been named already, but I'll go anyway. My first thoughts were:  womens field hockey,  Sydney McLaughlin in 400mH,  Janja Garnbret in boulder/lead climbing.

 

Some new ones:  Leon Marchand 400m IM swimming and the  Abe siblings in judo.

[AsensioWillemsen 158]

Summer McIntosh on the W 400 IM feels like a lock to me.

[TeamGB 187]

  On 7/2/2024 at 6:17 PM, Belle said:

Is she that big of fave? 

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Her consistency is just too good for her not to be.

[Epic Failure 355]

From a pov, Tom Pidcock in the MTB is probably up there. In that sport with the risk of injury/puncture there is never a guarantee but if he gets around on the bike without incident, I don't see him being beaten.

 

in diving is usually a lock for most of the events.

 

Summer in the 400IM is about as sure bet as you can get.

[Belle 986]

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