[PREDICTION CONTESTS] Rio 2016 Olympic Bet Contest Discussion Thread

[LDOG 2,418]

I'd welcome if someone could make more swimming suggestions. Rowing would be welcome too.

[hckošice 14,822]

okay so let´s go as promised,

 

ATHLETICS

 

Will we have in Rio at least one World Record in Athletics events?

Will be Ethiopia the best African Medal Nation in Athletics?

Will we have in all 3 Race Walking Rio Events at least 10 disqualified Competitors during the races ?

Will any Nation from another Continent upset the Europeans Athletes winning Gold medal in either mens or womens Javelin Throw Event?

Will we have at least one athlete who will fall in 110m Hurdles mens Final or 100m Hurdles womens final?

Will we have at least 1 clean sweep podium?

 

ARCHERY

 

Will at least one medal match (Final or Bronze medal game) in mens or womens singles decided by a shoot off?

Will Europe win overall at least 3 medals in archery at Rio 2016?

 

BADMINTON

 

Will we have in Rio at least one set which will end by at minimum result 30-28?

Will Europe win at least 2 Gold Medals in Badminton at Rio Olympics?

 

BASKETBALL

 

Will USA Mens and Womens Teams win all their matches in their respective Rio Tournaments?

Will the mens Final Match end by at least 20 points Margin?

Will we see in womens tournament at least one dunk?

 

BOXING

 

Will any country win at least 3 gold medals?

Will at least 1 match in mens tournament be ended already during the first round?

Will we have at least 2 countries which will win at least 2 medals in womens Boxing?

 

CANOEING SLALOM

 

Will any country win at least 3 medals?

Will at least 1 athlete miss a gate in mens C1 Final?

Will the mens K1 Final end without any penality of the finalists?

Will be the margin between the bronze medalist and 4th ranked athlete in womens K1 higher then 1 second?

Will be at least 1 racer in C1 (Heats, Semifinals or Final) reach a better time than the winner of mens K1 Final?

 

CANOEING SPRINT

 

Will any country win Gold in Kayak and Canoe event?

Will at least 2 non european countries win a medal in canoeing Sprint in Rio?

Will at least one boat starting in outdoor lanes (1 or 9) win Medal in Canoeing Sprint?

 

ROAD CYCLING

 

Will the mens road race event gold medal be contested in a bigger group sprint (at least 10 Riders)?

Will be a crash during womens road race event?

 

TRACK CYCLING

 

Will the winner of mens or womens Omnium win at least 3 of the 6 Omnium events?

Will we have a world record already in the qualification races of mens 4000m Team Pursuit?

 

BMX CYCLING

 

Will at least 3 different continents win medals in BMX Cycling in Rio?

Will we have a crash in the mens or womens Final race?

 

MTB CYCLING

 

Will be the final margin between the winner and second in mens cross country higher than 1 minute?

Will at least 2 countries win at least 2 medals in MTB Cycling in Rio?

 

DIVING

 

Will China win all Synchronized events in Rio?

Will any diver got 0.0 during the Rio olympics?

 

EQUESTRIAN

 

Will we have a jump off in individuals and team jumping events?

Will A Athlete from Gold Medal winning Dressage Team also win a gold in individual event (In other words will a athlete win both dressage events)?

Will the leader of eventing after the dressage part still in the top 10 of the provisional standing also after the cross-country part?

 

FENCING

 

Will both epee individual gold medal matches end after extra time?

Will at least 2 countries win at least 3 gold medals?

 

FIELD HOCKEY

 

Will any of the medal matches (Gold or Bronze medal match) in mens Tournament end after a penalties session?

Will the womens tournament end by 3 countries from 3 different continents in the medal podium?

 

FOOTBALL

 

Will we have a match with at least 2 red cards during the mens tournament?

Will we have in womens final a european Country?

Will we have at least 1 own goal in one of the play-off matches (Quarter Finals, Semifinals, Bronze Medal Game or Final) of mens tournament?

 

GOLF

 

Will we have at least 1 hole in one in Rio Olympics mens or womens Tournaments?

 

GYMNASTICS ARTISTICS

 

Will at least 1 gymnasts fall from the apparatus during the mens Pommel Horse and Horizontal Bars Finals?

Will a gymnast from the womens team all around gold medal country win at least 1 other gold medal on apparatus events?

 

GYMNASTICS RHYTMICS

 

Will all medals be won only by countries from ex-USSR?

 

GYMNASTICS TRAMPOLINE

 

Will any athlete fall from the trampoline during the Rio Olympics competitions?

 

HANDBALL

 

Will at least 2 different countries score at least 40 goals during the olympics mens tournament?

Will be at least 1 match in womens tournament decided by a penalty session?

 

JUDO

 

Will be at least 3 mens Gold medal matches decided by a ippon?

Will be at least 1 womens category where both bronze medalists will won their bronze medal matches by "winning by decision" flags method?

 

MODERN PENTATHLON

 

Will be the leader after the fencing part still be in top 5 also after the riding part?

Will the first athlete starting for the combined part also win the gold medal in either mens or womens event?

 

ROWING

 

Will any country win at least 4 Gold Medals?

Will more countries win medals in Rowing than in London 2012?

 

RUGBY SEVENS

 

Will all mens tournament medals be won by Oceanian representatives?

Will at least 1 match of the womens tournament end by a tie?

 

SAILING

 

Will be at least 1 gold medal winner be decided already before the medal race?

Will be a boat ranked 10th before the medal race win at least one medal race?

 

SHOOTING

 

Will be at least 1 country repeat their gold medal in the same event as in London 2012?

Will be at least 3 shotgun gold medal matches decided by a shoot off?

Will at least 1 shooter win 2 gold medals?

 

SWIMMING

 

Will we have at least 1 world record alsready in heats or semifinals?

Will a country win all 3 mens or all 3 womens relays?

Will we have at least one false start in the finals?

Will a country win at least 2 medals in marathon Swimming?

 

SYNCHRONIZED SWIMMING

 

Will the same countries which will be in the duets podium win also the teams event medals?

 

TABLE TENNIS

 

Will at least 3 European representatives advance to the Quarterfinals in both mens and womens singles?

Will the womens Team event Gold Medal Match end by 3-0?

 

TAEKWONDO

Will a Asian Country win the Taekwondo medal table in Rio?

Will less countries won medals in Taekwond than in London 2012?

 

TENNIS

 

Will at least 1 unseeded player reach the semifinals either mens or womens singles tournament?

Will be both mixed doubles medal matches decided by a super tiebreak?

 

TRIATHLON

 

well at least 1 easy question

 

Will Richard Varga be leading the race after the swimming part (In other words will be Varga the first athlete leaving the water)?

Will we have at least 1 athlete lapped in both Triathlon events?

 

BEACH VOLLEY

 

Will we have at least 1 All Brazilians Gold medal match?

 

VOLLEYBALL

 

Will at least one set of the mens tournament end by a result at minimum 35-33?

Will all womens semifinals end by a 3-0 score?

 

WATER POLO

 

Will Serbia lost at least 1 match in the mens tournament?

Will at least one 4th ranked team after the preliminary round upset in the womens tournament winning the QF match and qualify for the semifinals?

 

WEIGHTLIFTING

 

Will any lifter leading after the snatch bomb out in the clean and Jerk?

Will China win the weightlifting medal table?

 

WRESTLING

 

Will at least 1 gold medal match in mens wrestling end by a fall?

Will at least 1 athlete win a medal match by forfait of his opponent?

Will at least 1 Gold medal match end by Technical Fall?

 

GENERAL

 

Will we have more countries winning medals than in London 2012?

Will be the olympic flame light by Pele?

Will be hckošice happy to see Slovakia finally after 8 years win a summer olympic gold medal?

 

[MCMXC 15]

Archery

 

Will a South Korean archer shoot an arrow in the White or Black 

 

Athletics

 

Can Team GB get 2 Women on the Podium in the Heptathlon

 

Diving

 

Will Canada get a medal in every Female Event

Will at least half (4+) of the Golds go to Non-Chinese Countries

Will there be at least 10 failed dives (0 points) across all 10 events 

 

Football

 

Will a European nation win a medal

 

Gymnastics

 

Will Team GB be the best European in both the Men's & Women's Team Artistic event

 

Swimming

 

Will Great Britain finish best of the Commonwealth in the Swimming Medal Table

Will a swimmer in an outside lane of a Final, win Gold

[heywoodu 15,135]

27 minutes ago, hckosice said:

okay so let´s go as promised,

 

 

Will be hckošice happy to see Slovakia finally after 8 years win a summer olympic gold medal?

 

 

 

I think we're getting quite a decent list now, easily over 100  

 

 

[heywoodu 15,135]

By the way, I think before making the eventual list of questions "official", it would be good if a few people take a read first and make sure there are no questions that could have different possible outcomes because of the way it is written (which is possible since of course most people here, including myself, don't have English as their native language)  

[Griff88 1,952]

I can't think of many questions.....

 

Athletics

- Will any Asian nation win a medal in the marathon?

- Will Kenyan athletes sweep men's 3000 m steeplechase?

- Will any of ex-Soviet republic win gold in throwing events?

- Will Olympic records from East Germany or USSR be broken in Rio?

 

Badminton

- Will there be athlete not from Asia or Europe advance to the knock-out stage of the men's or women's singles?

 

Table tennis

- Will China won all of the gold medal again?

 

General

- Will there be boos from the crowd during the opening ceremony?

[Agger 1,662]

Some of these may already been written (haven't looked thoroughly at the others)

 

General

- Denmark will win more medals than the other Nordic countries (individually) (Finland, Norway, Iceland and Sweden)

 

Cycling - road

- Less than half the riders will finish either the men's or women's road race

 

Football

- At least 4 matches will be decided in a penalty shootout

 

Golf

- A medalist in either the men's tournament will have a round above par

- USA will win a medal in both the men's and women's tournament

 

[OlympicIRL 5,532]

Here are a few off the top of my head, I'll try to come up with more soon.... some have already been said so apologies in advance.....

 

General:

Finland won a medal at every edition of the Olympics (Summer and Winter) in which they have participated. Will this record come to an end in Rio? i.e. will Finland fail to win a medal.

 

Spain qualified 9 teams for various team sports. But will they win a medal in any of these events?

 

Will the Netherlands finish with more silver medals than any other colour?

 

Will three or more countries win their first ever Olympic medal?

 

Japan will finish ahead of South Korea in the medal table?

 

India will win 8 or more medals?

 

Hong Kong, Chinese Taipei and Singapore will all win an Olympic medal?

 

Latvia and Estonia will both win an Olympic medal?

 

Ethiopia will finish above Kenya in the medals table?

 

Great Britain will finish as the top nation in the medals table in each of track cycling, rowing and sailing?

 

Azerbaijan will finish ahead of Turkey in the medals table?

 

Denmark will finish ahead of Sweden in the medals table?

 

Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and Egypt will each win an Olympic medal?

 

Moldova will finish ahead of Romania in the medals table for the first time?

 

Cuba will finish ahead of Jamaica in the medals table?

 

There will be at least one nation who will win 8 medals or more, but will finish without a gold medal?

 

There will be at least one nation who will win 3 gold medals or more but no medal of any other colour?

 

Brazil will win 8 golds or more?

 

Hockey:

There will be 1 goal or less scored in any match in the men's or women's hockey events?

 

Tennis:

Switzerland will win a medal in tennis?

 

Football:

Brazil will win their first men's football Olympic title?

 

Denmark or Sweden will win a medal in Football?

 

Triathlon:

Both Brownlee brothers will be on the podium in men's triathlon?

 

Athletics:

Mo Farah will retain both his 5,000m and 10,000m Olympic titles?

 

Will there be an all-African podium in the women's 800m?

 

The world record will be broken in either the men's or women's triple jump events?

 

A former Olympic champion who is not the current Olympic champion will regain their title in Rio 2016 (like Felix Sanchez who won gold in 2004 and then again in 2012). Relay events don't count.

 

Will Usain Bolt do another golden treble (100m, 200m and 4x100m relay)?

 

Badminton:

Denmark will win a badminton medal?

 

Modern Pentathlon:

A non-European athlete will win a medal in Modern Pentathlon?

 

Gymnastics:

Romania will fail to win a medal in gymnastics?

 

Rowing:

Ekaterina Karsten will reach her 6th Olympic final in the women's single sculls (1996, 2000, 2004, 2008, 2012 and now again in 2016)?

 

 

Edited June 28, 2016 by OlympicIRL

[OlympicIRL 5,532]

Boxing:

All 3 Olympic champions in women's boxing from London 2012 will retain their title? (Nicola Adams, Katie Taylor and Savannah Marshall)

 

Equestrian:

The individual eventing gold medalist will finish on a score under 40 penalties?

 

Michael Jung will again win double gold in eventing (individual and team)?

 

Golf:

At least one medal winner in the men's or women's events will be ranked outside the top 100 in the world rankings?

 

Someone aged 40+ will win a medal in golf?

 

[Pavlo 141]

General:

Will MNE win gold at it`s 1st OG?

Will Fiji win it`s 1st medal?

Over 50 countries will win at least 1 gold medal?

5 or more nations will win their 1st olympic medal?

Will Poland win 15 or more medals?

Will Poland win 4 or more gold medals?

Will Poland win a medal in team sport? (1 to choose)

 

Archery:

South Korea will end-up without any gold medal?

 

Badminton:

Non-Asian country will win at least 1 gold?

 

Athletics:

Will Poland have a double gold in hammer-throw?

Will the winner of woman`s high jump jump over 2.00?

Burundi will win a medal?

 

Judo:

African nations wins at least 1 medal?

 

Cycling:

Will we have in men`s road race a finish from group of over 20 cyclists?

 

Football:

Will Fiji score at least 1 goal + at least 1 point?