How Many Medals do You Expect from Your Nation at the Winter Olympic Games Milano Cortina 2026？

[copravolley 642]

2 minutes ago, hoversaBR said:

Well, you Italians are quite pessimistic, from what I see. 

 

At least you have the statistics on your side; the host country always does its best at home.

Looking at 2006 Winter Games and write me what do you think about that, ok?

Edited January 27 by copravolley

[LuizGuilherme 339]

0 is probably but 1 is possible

 

lets hope!

[Josh 13,511]

1 hour ago, hoversaBR said:

Well, you Italians are quite pessimistic, from what I see. 

 

At least you have the statistics on your side; the host country always does its best at home.

It’s just @copravolley , @phelps is joking I think 

[copravolley 642]

4 minutes ago, Josh said:

It’s just @copravolley , @phelps is joking I think 

I don't know how this will end for us, but I'm 99% certain it will be disappointing, because even 20/21 medals won't be a great result. Many things could have been done better and had a little less bad luck, but fortunately, new people have emerged this season who can save these Games for us: like, Giacomel in biathlon and Franzoni in alpine skiing. Perhaps our own luge and bobsleigh track will also help us a bit... I hope so. We'll see how it goes at the and.

[hoversaBR 872]

1 hour ago, copravolley said:

Looking at 2006 Winter Games and write me what do you think about that, ok?

Well, I agree, it wasn't good for a host country. Well, let's hope the athletes know how to use the advantage this time.

[copravolley 642]

5 minutes ago, hoversaBR said:

Well, I agree, it wasn't good for a host country. Well, let's hope the athletes know how to use the advantage this time.

5 gold medals were okay for the time, but overall: 11 medals compared to 13 in 2002, was an embarrassment. Alpine skiing was the main disappointment: zero medals. And then we had eight dark years in winter sports: 2010 and 2014 were our worst Olympics of the 21st century. This shows that Turin 2006 was a complete failure in every respect: not even a single sports venue from those Games remains at now! Only in 2016/2017 did we begin to recover in winter sports from that disgrace.

Edited January 28 by copravolley

[Josh 13,511]

1 hour ago, copravolley said:

I don't know how this will end for us, but I'm 99% certain it will be disappointing

 Come on man, don’t keep being pessimistic 

 

1 hour ago, copravolley said:

I don't know how this will end for us, but I'm 99% certain it will be disappointing, because even 20/21 medals won't be a great result. Many things could have been done better and had a little less bad luck, but fortunately, new people have emerged this season who can save these Games for us: like, Giacomel in biathlon and Franzoni in alpine skiing. Perhaps our own luge and bobsleigh track will also help us a bit... I hope so. We'll see how it goes at the and.

Yeah that would be disappointing, however Italians have performed well enough the past few seasons that I don’t think it’ll happen. Think you’ll be more in the 23-25 medal rang

 

Yep, I’m hoping so too, always nice to see athletes winning Olympic medals at home. 

[Triplecast 215]

US has won exactly 9 golds at 5 successive Winter Games (06-22) so I expect 9 golds this Games as well.

Edited January 28 by Triplecast

[Topicmaster1010 6,598]

1 hour ago, Triplecast said:

US has won exactly 9 golds at 5 successive Winter Games (06-22) so I expect 9 golds this Games as well.

I would personally be shocked if you guys didn't win 15+ golds this year. Jordan Stolz/US team pursuit + the female alpine skiers + the figure skaters + ice hockey + the freestyle ski/snowboard team should provide plenty of gold medals.

[Josh 13,511]

Jokes aside, while I really hope for Kingsbury to win double gold, Homan to win gold, and Strate to win Canada's first individual ski jumping medal, most of all... my biggest wishes are for Eliot Grondin to win gold in snowboard cross and the men's hockey team to win gold, I'd probably be crying tears of happiness if that happened. It would mean that much to me. 

Edited January 28 by Josh