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6 hours ago, Josh said:

If we’re talking about weightlifting, surely  Olivia Reeves will also be a pretty heavy gold medal favourite in women’s 71kg? 
 

That being said I’m not much of a weightlifting expert, so I could be completely wrong. 

I just went with the Tokyo gold medallists that I felt had the highest chance to repeat. There are definitely others who also are strong contenders for gold including Olivia Reeves . 

How has somebody not mentioned Weightlifting till now? It is probably the most predictable sport in the Olympics.

Going by the easiest gold medallists, I think Li Fabin  (Men's 61 kg), Lasha Talakhadze  (Mens 102+kg), Hou Zhihui  (Women's 49 kg) and Li Wenwen  (Women's 81+kg) are guaranteed gold medallists. 

I just realized (a few days ago) that I will not be able to watch more than 3 hours daily due to internship prep. Sighs!

Events - Canoe Slalom Men's C-1, Archery Men's team, Shooting 50m 3p both men and women, 400m hurdles men and women both

Sports - Archery, Canoeing, Shooting, Wrestling, Athletics

Definitely not watching - Equestrian, Football, Breaking, Golf, Sailing

51 minutes ago, dodge said:

Because they don’t really have much option once they decide to have seeds. The world championships were missed by a lot of countries. As were Euro champs. And once they established the pacific qualifying route, they had to acknowledge it

 

Boxing seeding has always been rubbish and some fighters have always had easier routes to a medal than others. Every non-seed will want to be on the side of the Aussies now but there’s still so much luck involved with the draw

Give seeds through the world rankings. As you pointed out, there is a little bit of a mess in some categories due to countries missing important championships, but overall it still seems like the best approach.

21 hours ago, Fly_like_a_don said:

So there will be Top 8 seeds in every weight category.

 

Continental Champions + Runners up of Asia, Europe, Pan America

This is such a stupid decision. Why are they deciding the seeding only on the basis of a single tournament? And how is a European or Asian champion almost the same as an Australian or African champion? 

So 2 bronze and 2 4th place finishes for the recurve teams in the last world cup and major event before Olympics. Bodes well for our medal hopes in Paris. 

20 hours ago, Fly_like_a_don said:

Sub Poll

1. Your country's medal predictions in the sport?

2. Top 3 nations in shooting medal table

3. The shooter your most excited for, not belonging to your nation 

1. 3 medals.

A Gold for Sift Kaur Samra in women's 50m rifle 3 positions. 1 silver in mixed 10m air pistol team. 1 bronze for Aishwary Pratap Tomar in men's  50m rifle 3 position.

But the truth is we can any number of medals in any event. We have potential medallists in all disciplines. I am just hoping we can handle pressure and win some medals. 

2. Obviously  at the top. And I agree with the above comment that , ,  and should be among the countries in top 3. I see underperforming.

3. Sift Kaur Samra(Ind) obviously - she is so cheerful - and the Chinese no 1s in the pistol Jiang Ranxin and Zhang Bowen