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Will USA Top The Gold Medal Table?


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Just thinking about this over the last few days. This is probably our best winter Olympics roster I've seen in a while. I think we can win at least 13-14 gold medals, maybe even more if a few breaks go our way. 

 

With some big Norwegian retirements post-Beijing, I think USA has a big opportunity to win the gold medal tally this year.

 

Here's kind of a rough sport by sport breakdown of our gold medal chances. Obviously these are just predictions. Let me know if I'm crazy or if we really have a chance to top the gold medal tally.

 

Alpine Skiing: 1-2 Gold medals (Vonn & Shiffrin)

Biathlon: 0

Bobsled: 1 (Have a chance in both women's events, so I'll say 1)

Cross Country: 1 (Diggins should hopefully get 1)

Curling: 0

Figure Skating: 3-4 (Malinin, Chock/Bates, Team, chance at women's as well)

Freestyle Skiing: 4-5 (Men's halfpipe, women's aerials, women's moguls, mixed team aerials, maybe even dual moguls)

Ice Hockey: 1-2

Luge: 0

Nordic Combined: 0

Short Track: 0

Skeleton

Ski Jumping

Ski Mountaineering: 0

Snowboard: 1-2 (Chloe Kim, maybe men's big air, men's slope?)

Speed Skating: 5-6 (Stolz sweep, men's pursuit, maybe a women's event?)

 

Even if things go wrong, they will at least win 13 gold medals. Best case scenario, they could reach 17 or 18. Thoughts?

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Haha...I just did my official predictions.  I had 21 Gold, 8 Silver, 15 Bronze.  Probably a little too hopeful. :) It's my optimism kicking in...

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Team USA has been remarkably consistent.  They won 10 gold medals in Salt Lake and they've won exactly 9 at each of the past 5 Olympics.  I recall from Torino in 2006 that the perception was that the American team did poorly because a lot of the big name stars (think Bode Miller) under-performed.  Hopefully that's not the case this time around

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9 minutes ago, AmericanHero40 said:

Probably not Vonn anymore, unfortunately

 

Wondering if perhaps Breezy or someone else can combine with Mikaela to still pull off Gold in the combined.  (Mikaela's margins are pretty ridiculous, so hopefully so.)

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