How Many Medals do You Expect from Your Nation at the Winter Olympic Games 2018?

[heywoodu 15,997]

Which makes me think of another question: which events do you think are the most likely to see a one-country podium? To be clear, mentioning an event doesn't mean you actually expect this to happen, just that in your opinion it's a bigger possibility than other events (for example I don't think men's 5000m will be swept by the Netherlands, but it's still 100% more likely than the women's 500m  ).

 

Women's luge - Germany

Men's ski jumping (normal and large hill) - Germany/Norway

Nordic combined (both individual events) - Germany/Norway

Cross-country (several events) - Norway

 

This came to mind real quick  

 

[dcro 10,210]

1 minute ago, heywoodu said:

Men's ski jumping (normal and large hill) - Germany/Norway

 

Ehm... What happened to Stoch?

 

I'd say men's 5000m is more likely than any of the events you mentioned.

[heywoodu 15,997]

3 minutes ago, dcro said:

 

Ehm... What happened to Stoch?

 

I'd say men's 5000m is more likely than any of the events you mentioned.

Ah yeah, it should say Germany/Norway/Poland. 

 

And not exactly, especially De Vries winning a medal would be a small surprise (since he's sort of the Janine Flock of speed skating) and Blokhuijsen isn't a guaranteed medal shot neither. 

[EselTheDonkey 834]

Austria has a chance in men's slalom (Hirscher, Matt, Feller).

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France in Skicross

 

I'm kiddin' Sotchi sweep was unbelievable

 

Norway and Germany are the moer realistic chances of sweep in many sports

[heywoodu 15,997]

17 minutes ago, EselTheDonkey said:

Austria has a chance in men's slalom (Hirscher, Matt, Feller).

And Italy in women's GS (Brignone, Bassino, Goggia, Moelgg) is not entirely unrealistic, though of course not likely. 

[heywoodu 15,997]

Oh and for my adopted nation, I'm going for 1 medal: some Steven Bradbury-like luck is gonna take Isabel Clark Ribeiro to Brazil's historic first medal 

[dcro 10,210]

2 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

And Italy in women's GS (Brignone, Bassino, Goggia, Moelgg) is not entirely unrealistic, though of course not likely. 

 

You are using "unrealistic" wrong. Italian sweep in that event is quite unlikely, so it's definitely not realistic.

 

In any case, I honestly hope not to see any clean sweep. What's the fun in that anyway? Unless it's like Dutch speed skating and after a certain point you hope it gets as ridiculous as it can get.

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il y a 3 minutes, heywoodu a déclaré:

And Italy in women's GS (Brignone, Bassino, Goggia, Moelgg) is not entirely unrealistic, though of course not likely. 

Ok in that case in biathlon Germany Norway France Ukraine(w) could by a miracle

[heywoodu 15,997]

1 minute ago, dcro said:

 

You are using "unrealistic" wrong. Italian sweep in that event is quite unlikely, so it's definitely not realistic.

 

In any case, I honestly hope not to see any clean sweep. What's the fun in that anyway? Unless it's like Dutch speed skating and after a certain point you hope it gets as ridiculous as it can get.

Unrealistic means not realistic  

 

Unlikely indeed, but if I'd have to name a decent number of events, 'gun to the head', for someone who loves seeing sweeps, this would be one I'd tell this person to keep an eye on. 

 

And yeah I agree, I prefer as many 3-nation podiums as possible